The challenge for Vermont hospitals: keep costs low, care accessible and their doors open

Springfield Hospital in Springfield in June 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe state’s most powerful healthcare regulator thinks Vermont’s 14 hospitals can keep costs low, provide care and find financial sustainability. Not all the hospitals agree.In budget orders handed down Monday, the Green Mountain Care Board built on its efforts last year to shrink hospital budgets.This year, the independent state regulator focused on not only reducing hospital revenue, but how much