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Health insurance premiums for Blue Cross Blue Shield and MVP Health Care will spike next year, and Vermont's hospitals are asking for significant budget increases in 2024.

Vermont's 14 hospitals were supposed to keep their two-year growth to 8.6%, but the most recent budget proposals far exceed that target.

The Red Cross urges Vermonters to donate throughout the summer, a time that people generally donate the least. In Vermont, 560 people every week need to donate blood to meet demand.

Georgia is the latest state to enact a law that allows hospitals to create independent police forces. Critics worry the law enforcement focus could have unintended consequences.

Masking is now largely up to the individual at a handful of local hospitals, although some still require people with flu-like symptoms to mask up. Meanwhile, pandemic-era visitor restrictions are also loosening.

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

A group of doctors trains health care providers to treat miscarriage in the emergency department. This could be increasingly important in states where abortion is outlawed.

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.

Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Lori Shibinette said the shortage is partly due to the state's inability to compete with wages and $10,000 sign-on bonuses offered by other hospitals.

The number of people hospitalized with COVID in Vermont is holding fairly steady � and well below the peak this winter. But numbers aren’t the full story.