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The Time is Now for Mental Health First Aid
Shutterstock May is Mental Health Awareness Month and in our world today there’s plenty of reason to want to be aware. Vermont has established as a policy if not in… Read More
Future of Vermont Healthcare Council
Future of Vermont Healthcare Council Mission: To refine, design, and advocate for a healthcare system that delivers quality, equity, access, and affordability for Vermonters. Academic alignment and fiscal agent (501©3):… Read More
1. UVMMC has generated negative Medicare margins for at least the past 10 years. These negative margins have averaged $43M and totaled $119M in 2022. 60% of academic peer hospitals broke even… Read More
Vermonters: The time is now to reach out to your legislators and insist they protect the mission of the Green Mountain Care Board to regulate and improve our access to healthcare in Vermont.
Unlike my prior columns on healthcare, this one will be short, concise, and easily understood. It’s a call-to-aims (sic) for all Vermonters concerned about their access to quality healthcare. The… Read More
Leveraging Government’s Role by Funding Designated Agencies and Specialized Service Agencies in the Nonprofit Sector
The socio-economic governance spectrum divides itself into the for-profit business sector, the nonprofit mission-driven sector, and the government sector. There are statutory regulations that, often rather loosely, regulate the governance… Read More
Oppose Senate bill S.211….written by Vermonters for Vermonters?
Senate bill S.211 is an attempt by the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (VAHHS) to gain more power. Their dominant member is the UVM Health Network (UVMHN). Over… Read More
It’s Time for the UVM Health Network Board to Talk with the People They Serve
Talk With Us The stated mission of the UVM Health Network (UVMHN) is “… to improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care,… Read More
A Community-Engaged Hospital in Vermont
Photo courtesy of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital Too often I write about our misunderstanding of the complex systems that plague us and our failure to reimagine them as functional solutions to… Read More
Comments to Brattleboro Hospital Convocation on October 4, 2023
Photo of Brattleboro Hospital courtesy of VTDigger.org We’re here to talk today about how best to design and implement a healthcare and social system that secures our shared goal of… Read More
Memo to Board members: It’s Unwise to Try to Intimidate, Insult, or Challenge the Authority of your Regulator
I have grave ethical concerns about the behavior, governance, and board leadership at the UVM Health Network (UVMHN) and its network of Vermont hospitals (Porter, Central VT, and UVM Medical Center… Read More
Our Young People and the Imperative of Social-Emotional Learning
Courtesy Penn Live Our public schools have become the focus of our efforts to support youth mental health. Many parents are stressed beyond imagination because of the pandemic, flooding, and… Read More
A New Asylum for our Communities
The Weeks School Girls’ Dorm When I was young growing up in Morrisville, there were certain institutions that were invoked largely in an effort to ensure that we behaved. One… Read More