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Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BENNINGTON — As hoped, Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s planned $26 million Emergency Department modernization project has won certificate of need approval from the Green Mountain Care Board prior to the end of 2020. The project will expand the currently undersized department, reconfigure the main entrance to Southwestern Vermont Medical Center and nearby hospital department and include parking and access road improvements. A spri...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BENNINGTON — Southwestern Vermont Medical Center was expecting its first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to arrive on Tuesday, and plans to give the first doses to doctors and nurses who work directly with COVID-19 patients on Wednesday, the hospital announced. The announcement came as an emergency department nurse at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington became the first person in the state to receive a va...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BENNINGTON — Southwestern Vermont Health Care outbid youth camp operator Moshe Perlstein and businessman Paul Belogour on Friday to purchase the former Southern Vermont College campus for $4,650,000. The bidding process took place during a late morning videoconference hearing before Judge Colleen Brown in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The session involved about two dozen higher bids being offered before the remaining alternate bidder, Perlstein...