hospitals

Nursing Staffing Shortage Town Hall with Kesha Ram-Hinsdale 03/02/2022

Kesha Ram-Hinsdale hosts a Town Meeting with frontline nursing staff about the challenges they face, including wage gaps, housing challenges, extended shifts, a lack of nurse educators and a shortage of new nursing graduates.

Green Mountain Care Board - 2018 Hospital Budget Hearings 08/22/2017

Representatives from University of Vermont Medical Center, Central Vermont Medical Center, Porter Medical Center in Middlebury, and Northwestern Medical Center in Saint Albans make presentations for their requested hospital budgets for the upcoming fiscal year to the State of Vermont's Green Mountain Care Board, with additional input from members of the public.

Senator Patrick Leahy: National Telecommunications Information Administration Awards $47 Million for Building Broadband Infrastructure in Vermont 07/02/2010

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke with Senator Leahy, Senator Sanders, Representative Welch and Governor Douglas on the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) awarding of a $33.4 million grant to the Vermont Telecommunications Authority (VTA) and a $13.7 million grant to the Vermont Telephone Company (VTEL) through NTIA’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). The two grants are part of a $7.2 billion broadband investment program that Congress and President Obama crafted as part of last year’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.