Heidi Richard’s career has taken her from nursing assistant to registered nurse to teacher. At a moment when Vermont needs more nurses, she is both doing the work and helping another generation imagine themselves in it. Heidi Richard gets to see two kinds of progress....
Respiratory therapists are there for first breaths, medical emergencies and the long work of helping patients breathe on their own again. Vermont needs more of them. Darcey Lafreniere spent years not knowing the career existed Most of us do not spend much time...
Years ago, Roger Weeden was grocery shopping when someone tapped him on the shoulder. He didn’t recognize the person. There was no reason he should have. They had crossed paths only briefly, during one of the most difficult moments in that person’s family. The...
At a time when Vermont is struggling to meet the demand for dental care, Lauren Harlow’s path into dental hygiene offers a closer look at a career built around prevention, relationships and the kind of care that can change what happens next. Lauren Harlow...
The growing field helping Vermonters navigate prevention, recovery, treatment, harm reduction, and supportSubstance use touches nearly every corner of healthcare and community life in Vermont - from emergency departments and recovery centers to schools, public health...
In occupational therapy, progress does not always look dramatic from the outside. Sometimes it looks like a child who can focus a little longer. A student who feels less overwhelmed by sensory input. An adult who can move through daily life with more calm, more...
In Vermont, health care is personal. Our communities are small, our connections are strong, and the people caring for us are often the same people we see at the grocery store or on the sidelines of a school game. That’s why programs that support those clinicians – our...
When Ashley Leonard thinks back to what first drew her toward healthcare, she doesn’t picture a classroom or a textbook – she remembers her grandmother. “As her [Alzheimer’s] progressed, we had the support of so many dedicated health professionals whose compassion and...
When Eilish Quirion, RN, of Derby, Vermont, was growing up, she didn’t have to look far to find her role model. Her father, a nurse for more than 30 years, showed her what true compassion looks like – not in words, but in steady, everyday acts of care. “The...
When we talk about Vermont’s future, one theme rises again and again: health care. Not just in the context of hospitals or clinics, but as a pillar of the state’s economy, a lifeline for rural communities, and a career pathway for thousands of Vermonters. Health care...