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Tue, 04/20/2021 - 2:00pm -- tim by Devon Green, Vice President of Government Relations, VAHHS Last week, the House Government Operations Committee took testimony on S.48. The Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact is an important health care workforce initiative and a key recommendation from the Rural Health Services Task Force 2020 Report. Under the compact, nurses can apply for a license in one compact state and have access to all the other compact states without applying for separate licenses, which is an appealing option for new graduates. Maine and New Hampshire are currently compact states ...

(Photo by Westend61/Getty Images) Nonprofit MVP Health Care, a health plan based in Vermont and New York, and the University of Vermont Health Network are teaming up to launch a joint Medicare Advantage plan, the organizations announced this week. The entities are currently focused on adhering to regulatory requirements, and because of that offered few details about the benefit design. But a tentative start date has been announced: January 1, 2022. MVP and UVM plan to announce further details of their Medicare Advantage insurance plan during this fall's annual enrollment period. WHAT'S THE IM...

arrow A healthcare professional cries in front of Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, a safety-net hospital in Brooklyn, April 7, 2021. Vanessa Carvalho/Shutterstock When COVID-19 swept through the Rockaway peninsula last spring, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital was alone to weather the storm. Those who live nearby suffer disproportionately from conditions like diabetes, obesity, and hypertension that make people more vulnerable to severe cases of COVID-19, and St. John’s has been the sole medical center serving the isolated beach community since Peninsula Hospital closed in 2012. ...

Vermont State Colleges Trustees approve consolidation, campuses to stay open The Vermont State College System Board of Trustees have voted to move forward with the proposal outlined by the state’s Select Committee on the Future of Public Higher Education in Vermont. The proposal will unify the three residential colleges, Castleton University, Northern Vermont University, and Vermont Technical College, under a common accreditation in Academic Year 2023-2024 while maintaining the Community College of Vermont as a separate institution. Additionally, the system will streamline services across t...

Wed, 02/03/2021 - 2:44pm -- tim Vermont Business Magazine OneCare Vermont today responded with strong opposition to a suit filed this morning by Attorney General TJ Donovan on behalf of State Auditor Douglas Hoffer in Washington superior court requiring the organization to provide payroll, salary, and benefit information no other contractor or state partner is required to share.  Although OneCare has already provided the state and the public with the compensation paid to every single OneCare executive, the Auditor is now seeking the pay of other OneCare employees. OneCare said in a stateme...