Vaccination required for Porter Hospital and other UVMHN employees

BURLINGTON — The University of Vermont Health Network, which includes Middlebury’s Porter Medical Center, will require employees to either get a COVID-19 vaccination by Oct. 1, or be subject to weekly testing for the disease, which has killed 260 Vermonters and 615,000 Americans since it arrived in this country 18 months ago.UVMHN President and CEO John Brumsted, MD, said in a statement today that recent increases in COVID-19 cases in Vermont have “made one thing crystal clear: vaccination is how we control … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Porter Medical Center President Tom Thompson is asking his managers to be frugal during the coming months in an effort to reduce a budget deficit produced in part by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent email to the PMC community, Thompson note … (read more)

On Friday the head of the network of six Vermont hospitals that saw its internet systems hobbled by a cyberattack 10 days ago said the University of Vermont Health Network’s IT team is making significant progress in restoring communications systems among … (read more)