The president and CEO of BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont described the insurer's alarming state of finances in a letter this week.

Deborah Weymouth, president and CEO of Manchester Memorial Hospital, Rockville General Hospital, and Waterbury Hospital, is expected to tap into the hospitals’ own funds to finance their functioning during the bankruptcy process.

Private equity-funded Prospect Medical Holdings in California, the owner of three financially troubled hospitals in Connecticut, filed for bankruptcy late Saturday night. The bankruptcy impacts Waterbury Hospital, Manchester Memorial Hospital and Rockville General Hospital.

The Nashua hospital and the state’s largest insurer failed to agree on a new contract, leaving the hospital out of network. Anthem members can still seek care there for 60 days.

According to an oral health equity report recently published by the nonprofit Voices for Vermont’s Children, people without legal immigration status face particularly big barriers to dental care. But there are local efforts to overcome these challenges.

More people are making wellness a priority. Wellness experts and others share ways to stay well.

The Wakefield Police Department was asked to check on the four family members after they did not show up for holiday plans at a relative’s house on Christmas Day.

A new study from Dartmouth Health found that algorithms were able to use large sets of data to come to conclusions that were accurate, but not logical, including that beer consumption was evident in knee X-rays.

About one quarter of the claims are for bonding leave with a newborn child, according to state officials.

From 2020 to 2022, calls to Connecticut’s Human Anti-Trafficking Response Team on alleged child sex trafficking doubled, according to the state Department of Children and Families.