Health

Governor Peter Shumlin: Gov. Shumlin Press Conference - All Payer Health Care Model 01/25/2016

Gov. Shumlin Press Conference - Health Care Team Outline Details of All Payer Health Care Model - January 25, 2016.

On the Waterfront: American Lung Association in Vermont 01/20/2016

Host Melinda Moulton welcomes Dr. Ted Marcy, Board Member with the American Lung Association of the Northeast on the variety of initiatives offered Vermonters.

More information at: www.lung.org

VT State House - Cost Crisis in Health Care Pt. 3 01/15/2016

Senate Committee on Finance - Thomas Feeley, M.D., MD Anderson Cancer Center, Institute for Cancer Care Innovation.

VT State House - Cost Crisis in Health Care Pt. 2 01/15/2016

Senate Committee on Finance - Robert Kaplan, Ph.D, Senior Fellow, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus.

VT State House - Cost Crisis in Health Care Pt. 1 01/15/2016

Senate Committee on Finance - John Wright W.D, Brigham and Women's Hospital - January 15, 2016.

VT State House - All Payer Model Update 01/14/2016

Joint Committees Human Services Health Care - All Payer Model Update from the Green Mountain Care Board - January 14, 2016.

VT State House - All Payer Model Update 01/13/2016

Joint Committees Human Services Health Care - All Payer Model Update from the Green Mountain Care Board - January 13, 2016.

Positively Vermont: Vermont Foodbank 01/12/2016

Host Dennis McMahon speaks with John Sayles, CEO of Vermont Foodbank.

More information at www.vtfoodbank.org

Congressman Peter Welch: Importance of Advance Care Directives 01/05/2016

Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) unveils his bipartisan legislation offering an incentive to Medicare beneficiaries for completing advance care directives which specify preferred medical treatment should they become unable to make their own decisions. Welch is joined by Cathy Frank, former chair of the Vermont Ethics Network, Dr. Bob Macauley, Director of Clinical Ethics at the University of Vermont’s College of Medicine, and Asaad Trina, a third year UVM medical student. The legislation has been endorsed by a broad coalition, including the American College of Physicians, the National Right to Life Committee, the American Nurses Association, and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care.

Read a one-page summary of the legislation here: http://1.usa.gov/1OdT2Qn

http://www.welch.house.gov

Update on ImmuneDysfunction.org 12/17/2015

Rik Carlson, Director of ImmuneDysfunction.org is joined via skype by Dr. Kenneth J. Friedman, Ph.D, Author and Board Member of multiple national and international Chronic Fatigue Syndrome organizations, including VT CFIDS (immunedysfunction.org). The two share information on the activities and mission of VT CFIDS whose mission statement reads: The goals of the Vermont CFIDS Association are to: (1) raise public awareness of Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), (2) support and advocate for Vermonters who suffer the debilitating symptoms of this and related disorders, and (3) facilitate the education of patients, families, healthcare providers and primary care physicians in order to validate and establish a recognized and acceptable protocol for the diagnosis and treatment of CFIDS.

More information available at: www.ImmuneDysfunction.org

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CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!