Health Care

About 2,200 nursing assistants, unit secretaries, kitchen workers and other support staff at Vermont’s largest hospital are poised to join a union after an election that concluded Friday.

A Woman's Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice was published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

A new president and CEO takes over the helm of Vermont’s largest health network at a time of rising costs and operating deficits.

This hour, we'll hear a recent episode of Brave Little State about Vermont's lack of freestanding birth centers. And host Mikaela Lefrak talks to a certified nurse midwife in Vermont.

Over 2,000 support staff could soon join the ranks of unionized employees at Vermont’s largest hospital. That's after workers at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington gathered enough signatures to petition for a union election.

Vermont is the only state in the Northeast without a freestanding birth center. We dig into the reasons why, and talk to folks pushing for change.

BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont announced this week it would “pause" their relationship with OneCare Vermont. The move comes days before next year's contract was set to go into effect.

The shortage of home health aids has become a nationwide crisis. These are the people you might call if your older relative needs help bathing or caring for a wound. They’re mostly women and they’re underpaid, undervalued and overworked. We want you to meet two of them.

Hospital administrators in Vermont and across the country say having to care for long term patients who should be in nursing homes is causing bottlenecks in their emergency rooms and millions of dollars in financial losses.

Host Mikaela Lefrak talks with a pediatric critical care doctor and a school nurse about the respiratory illness RSV.