Community Capital of Vermont was recently selected to be a U.S. Small Business Administration microloan intermediary and has received a commitment for a $300,000 SBA loan to invest in small businesses in Vermont.  Community Capital of Vermont is only the second microloan intermediary to serve the entire state of Vermont, which provides direct loans up to $50,000 to small businesses.

Vermont Public Service Department Commissioner Christopher Recchia has announced that the Governor’s Energy Generation Siting Policy Commission has issued a final report to the Governor and Legislature. The Commission’s recommendations, developed with broad public and stakeholder input, focus on bolstering the local and regional energy planning processes and ensuring that local and regional plans receive greater consideration before the Public Service Board (PSB). 

OneCare Vermont has announced the membership of its Clinical Advisory Board (CAB), an entity charged with creating a coordinated, consistent approach to improving the quality and monitoring the cost of care delivered to approximately one-third of Vermont’s Medicare Fee-for-Service beneficiaries attributed to the OneCare Vermont Accountable Care Organization (ACO). 

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH), Grace Cottage Hospital in Townshend, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock of Lebanon, NH, are working with health care management consultants Helms and Company, Inc, to identify and assess opportunities for more efficient clinical coordination and cost effective health care services, to maximize access and quality of care for their shared community.

by Alicia Freese April 28, 2013 vtdigger.org An omnibus drug bill — designed to tackle prescription drug and methamphetamine abuse — is making headway in the Senate.

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences President James J Gozzo announced today that he will be stepping down as president of the College effective June 30, 2014. The college is based in Albany, NY, and operates a campus in Colchester.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Monday at the Colchester Business and Technology Park for a state-of-the-art new laboratory for the Vermont Department of Health.  The 47,844-square-foot building, which will replace the Health Department’s 32,695 square foot current laboratory, located on Colchester Ave. in Burlington, will be completed in the summer of 2014. 

by Nat Rudarakanchana April 29, 2013 vtdigger.org The state’s latest lobbyist reports allows the public to track how much money lines the edges of many major legislative debates. The reports reveal how much money special interests spent in the past three months.

by Anne Galloway April 30, 2013 vtdigger.org If the devil is in the details, the devil that is the annual budget for state government is a thousand details, large and small.

Phillip Brown at St. Johnsbury Health and Rehabilitation Center recently made the Vermont Foodbank quite happy.