UVM Medical Center

Burlington Progressives TV: Patient Safety and Livable Wages: The Campaign by UVM Medical Center Support Staff United for a Fair Contract 06/29/2023

From Burlington Progressives TV:

Host Gene Bergman chats with Jacob Berkowitz, Staffing Office Specialist and Support Staff United Bargaining Team Member; Lou Levesque, Patient Service Specialist and Support Staff United Bargaining Team Member; and Heather Bauman, Phlebotomist and Support Staff United Bargaining Team Member.

Progressives have consistently supported the rights and interests of workers and their unions. In January, 2023, 2300 support staff at the UVM Medical Center won a union election in an 86% landslide. They are now in negotiations with the administration for a first contract. Their priorities include Patient and Worker Safety, addressing Short Staffing, and Livable Wages for All. We hear from 3 members of the bargaining team.

Community Partners in the Park - 2021: UVM Medical Center Health Assistance Program 09/26/2021

Pathways Vermont presents Community Partners in the Park, a gathering of community resources, supports and services in Pomeroy Park, Burlington.

Town Meeting TV interviews representatives from the participating organizations.

For more information: uvmhealth.org/medcenter/patients-and-visitors/patients/assistance/health-assistance-program

UVM Medical Center Design Charette for Noise Barrier 10/03/2018

UVM Medical Center hosts a design charrette for a new noise barrier wall that the hospital proposes to build on the East side of its main campus to help mitigate noise from traffic in and around our loading dock and perimeter road.

The noise barrier is proposed at the request of neighbors in the Case Parkway/East Avenue area who are most impacted, and with the input from our acoustical experts. Based on computer modeling, acoustical experts project that a noise barrier built along the outside edge of the hospital perimeter road, running parallel to East Avenue at the top of the embankment, up to 600 feet long and 12 feet high, would produce the maxiumum decrease in noise heard by neighbors. At the charrette, the hospital presents design concepts and collects community input. Experts in attendance include: Architects: E4H (Williston) with Wagner Hodgson Landscape Architects (Burlington); Acoustical Consultants: Resource Systems Group (RSG -- White River Jct.); Civil and Structural Engineers: Engineering Ventures (Burlington); Construction Team: SD Ireland (Burlington) and Whiting Turner (Baltimore).

Municipal Updates: Burlington City Update 08/07/2017

The Burlington City Council meets on Mondays, three times each month at 7pm. Their meetings air live on Channel 317 (Burlington Telecom) and on Channel 17 at the air times listed below.

Winning Health Care As a Right in the Trump Era: Lessons from State-Based Campaigns for Universal Health Care 08/06/2017

The Vermont Workers' Center hosts activists from around the country who have worked on campaigns in their states to create a universal health care system. Guests and activists share lessons from their organizing.

UVM Medical Education Center "Solving Stress" 10/10/2015

UVM Medical Education Center "Solving Stress" Symposium

Sponsored by the Macmillan Trust and the Neuroscience, Behavior and Health Initiative

See Agenda for the day here: http://www.uvm.edu/~nbhspire/?Page=solvingstressprogram2015.html

ECOS in Action: The Community Health Needs Assessment 06/18/2015

Mike Cohen speaks with Amy Malinowski, RD Prevention Team Leader, Vermont Department of Health and Penrose Jackson, Director of Community Health Improvement, UVM Medical Center on the Community Health Needs Assessment . The UVM Medical Center routinely conducts community health needs assessments to understand current health trends.

ECOS is a project of CCRPC.org www.ecosproject.com

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