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Vermont hospitals are approaching capacity as they treat a record number of COVID patients. Staff anticipate they'll be able to handle the surge.
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Vermont hospitals have reached their highest rates of admitted COVID patients throughout the pandemic – exceeding 100 each day for much of the past week.
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VPR is checking in with hospital leaders across the state each week of January to see how medical centers are doing amid the COVID surge fueled by the omicron variant.
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As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations reach record levels in New Hampshire, a lack of health care workers has put the system at a breaking point.
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COVID cases continue to rise in New Hampshire, and it’s putting pressure on the state’s hospital system.
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State regulators say that Vermont's hospital system is losing too much money and they want to see major changes to avoid another bankruptcy. At a meeting last week, the Green Mountain Care Board, for the first time, talked about eliminating beds and consolidating some services among the state's 14 hospitals in order to save money. Those suggestions drew swift condemnation from the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems.
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Lewis County General Hospital in upstate New York is pausing maternity services later this month after dozens of staff members quit because they refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Ray DeMonia didn't die from COVID-19, but after the 73-year-old experienced a cardiac emergency, he was turned away from dozens of packed ICUs, his family says.
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Since January, hospitals were supposed to be disclosing true prices for their services, as a way to empower patients to shop around. Turns out, compliance is spotty and the data can be hard to find.
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Researchers have quantified the price paid for fast-spreading COVID-19 infections. Patients who might have survived otherwise perished in crowded ICUs.