Rural Health Care

BRATTLEBORO, VT — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, this week visited with nurses and leaders at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital’s Birthing Center. Senator Welch discussed the importance of increasing access to rural health care and how to…

Welch secured funding for the projects through congressional appropriations   BURLINGTON, VT — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, today announced the delivery of more than $2 million in federal funding to Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and the University…

Welch: “We really have to stand up for rural America.”  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, today joined Center for American Progress (CAP) President and CEO Neera Tanden for a…

Bill would update decades-old Medicare rules that trigger harmful cuts to health care providers  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, along with U.S. Senators John Boozman (R-Ark.), Angus King (I-Maine), Roger Marshall M.D. (R-Kan.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), introduced the Provider Reimbursement Stability Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to modernize…

BENNINGTON, VT – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, this week hosted a roundtable on rural health care innovation, featuring local health care leaders, medical experts, and community members. The Senator discussed challenges faced by health care providers and patients in Vermont.   While at the Bennington Firehouse, he highlighted the Emergency…