Lola Duffort
ReporterLola is a Vermont Public reporter. She's previously reported in Vermont, New Hampshire, Florida (where she grew up) and Canada (where she went to college).
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The program allows states to leverage their collective purchasing power and negotiate for better discounts for their residents. -
Gov. Phil Scott insists on lawmakers 'keeping our word' on education reform in State of State speechGov. Phil Scott urged lawmakers during his State of the State address Wednesday to defy political headwinds and follow through on sweeping education reform legislation that passed last year but is now in jeopardy. -
The panel ruled the independent school ties of two state senators who were instrumental in crafting last year’s education reform law, Act 73, did not constitute a conflict of interest. -
The Trump administration overhauled the childhood vaccine schedule. What does that mean for Vermont?For now, the CDC’s changes should not keep families in Vermont from accessing the shots the federal government once universally endorsed. -
Leffler took the job on an interim basis in October. He's already made changes to the state's largest health care organization. -
“I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this, frankly,” said Mike Del Trecco, the president and CEO of Vermont’s hospital association. -
The UVM study, published in December in Environmental Health, was the first to look at the impacts of wildfire smoke on asthma in the Northeast, the university said. -
As part of the civil settlement, the nonprofit outpatient practice — which operates as Eden Valley — has admitted to submitting hundreds of improper claims to the state’s Medicaid program between 2022 and 2024. -
The suit was initially filed in January on behalf of a single plaintiff, a woman called “A.V.” But the ACLU wanted to make a larger point about how the state surveils people it believes aren’t cut out for parenthood. -
Regulators do not typically encourage hospitals to increase patient traffic, but this is an unusual case.
