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Survey examines sex, drug and health risks to local teens

Posted on November 14, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



ADDISON COUNTY — How many local teenagers drink and drive? How many Addison County high school students have had sex? Of that number, what percentage used a condom? Do middle school students really consider suicide?

These are just some of the questions that a statewide risk survey has sought to answer for more than a decade.

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Survey seeks public's views on Porter Hospital services

Posted on November 7, 2011 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — The Porter Medical Center (PMC) board is looking forward to getting countywide feedback on its services through a new survey that will be offered electronically to many hundreds of local health care consumers and workers during the coming weeks.

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Palliative care practice's fate illustrates limits of system

Posted on October 27, 2011 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — Porter Medical Center (PMC) will close its popular and innovative palliative care medical practice at the end of this month, citing the recent resignation of one of the two physicians in the practice and an inability to put together a new business model to continue the service with a smaller workforce.

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Federal score comes in for Bristol health center

Posted on October 13, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



BRISTOL — Since Bristol’s Five Town Health Alliance (5THA) discovered it would not get funding this year for a Federally Qualified Health Center, or FQHC, it has waited patiently for federal reviewers to return its application score with their critiques.

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Mosquitoes back for another bite

Posted on October 3, 2011 |
By John Flowers



WEYBRIDGE — Some warm, wet fall weather has contributed to a late-season surge of pesky mosquitoes that has been harassing people in portions of Addison County.

Tom Baskett, chairman of the Lemon Fair Insect Control District (LFICD), confirmed the surge but said his district was unable to treat it because of the unavailability of state funds. The LFICD conducts drops of pesticides that kill mosquito larvae in the member towns of Bridport, Cornwall and Weybridge.

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Brandon emus die in 1st Vt. case of EEE

Posted on September 26, 2011 |
By Lee J. Kahrs



BRANDON — Sixteen emus on a farm in Brandon have died in what is Vermont’s first documented case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis.

Area veterinarian Keely Henderson sent brain tissue and blood samples from the dead emus to a University of New Hampshire lab last Wednesday, Sept. 21, and the results were received late next day.

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Funds sought for health center

Posted on August 29, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



BRISTOL — Those seeking to establish a federally subsidized health clinic in Bristol are looking for new funds after learning that a federal grant won’t come through this year.

The Five Town Health Alliance (5THA) had sought $650,000 to outfit a Federally Qualified Health Center, or FQHC, and pay the salaries of administrative staff. But due to late-April budget cuts, manifest in legislation known as a continuing resolution, the pool of money available for FQHCs was cut by almost one quarter.

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Porter Hospital budget calls for 10% hike

Posted on July 7, 2011 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — State officials are reviewing a proposed fiscal year 2012 Porter Hospital operating budget of $65.9 million that would require less than a 2-percent increase in net revenues, but necessitate a 10.3-percent rise in the rates it would have to charge for procedures.

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Middlebury eyed for methadone clinic

Posted on June 30, 2011 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — State and local health care administrators are studying the possibility of opening a methadone clinic in Middlebury, a plan that has some local officials concerned about the prospect of such a service producing a spike in drug-related crime in Addison County’s shire town.

Methadone is a synthetic opioid, similar to morphine. It is used as pain reliever, but also as part of a treatment plan to reduce withdrawal symptoms in people addicted to heroin or other narcotic drugs.

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Educators learn to help families help themselves

Posted on June 27, 2011 |
By Ian Trombulak



MIDDLEBURY — Addison Central Supervisory Union officials believe that raising healthy and well-adjusted children is a challenge, and that even the most prepared parents sometimes need a little coaching.

With that in mind, ACSU health coordinator Mary Gill and more than dozen other ACSU elementary school teachers, counselors and principals are taking time out of their summer, learning how to help make parents’ jobs a little easier.

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