Elodie Reed
Health Equity ReporterElodie is a reporter and producer for Vermont Public. She previously worked as a multimedia journalist at the Concord Monitor, the St. Albans Messenger and the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, and she's freelanced for The Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, the Berkshire Eagle and the Bennington Banner. In 2019, she earned her MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Southern New Hampshire University. Email Elodie.
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In this week’s edition of the Capitol recap, the Vermont Senate gave final approval on Friday to legislation that seeks to expand access to reproductive care. -
Capitol Recap: Lawmakers vote to shore up shield laws and allow online access to abortion medicationThe legislation would make abortion medication accessible online, broaden which health care service advertising is regulated by consumer protection law, and add privacy options for providers of reproductive and gender-affirming care. -
Difficulties include recent federal funding cuts to state health equity work and a dispute over Indigenous belonging in Vermont. -
The project dates to the fall of 2022, when the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs announced it was getting $50,000 from the foundation of the Burlington-based company Seventh Generation to create materials about Abenaki peoples for K-12 students. -
The Active Project was created by the Kelly Brush Foundation, a nonprofit in Burlington, and offers an adaptive sports event calendar, a grant finder and more. -
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England said in a press release that this particular health center, which is currently open just two days a week, has faced significant challenges since the pandemic. -
The bulk of the $7 million retracted from the Vermont Department of Health had been dedicated to collaborative initiatives like making multilingual, educational videos about vaccinations and setting up pediatric vaccine clinics outside regular office hours. -
“This is really creating a lot of last-minute chaos,” said Brenda Siegel, executive director of End Homelessness Vermont. -
A Central Vermont Medical Center spokesperson told Vermont Public in an email that the hospital remains “committed to reaching an agreement that supports our staff as well as the long-term sustainability of CVMC for our patients and community.” -
Senators advanced a bill Thursday to study the creation of a statewide Office of New Americans, which would coordinate services for immigrants in Vermont. “Immigrants in Vermont are the fastest-growing working-age demographic — they're vital to our economy and to our future,” said the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Martine Larocque Gulick, D-Chittenden County, earlier this week. “But the challenges they face are around licensing and education, language barriers.”
