Copley Hospital
Coverage of Copley Hospital in the Nexus archive.
- Former Copley staffers create Green Mountain Birthing Center
Green Mountain Birthing Center, a nonprofit in Waterbury, was established by former Copley Hospital nurse-midwives to provide perinatal care. The center aims to open Vermont's first freestanding birth center by 2028 and currently offers prenatal and postpartum care in a Morrisville clinic.
- Brattleboro Memorial Hospital plans to close its birthing center
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital plans to close its birthing center due to financial losses exceeding $3.8 million in 2025 and projected $4.8 million in 2026. The closure will take six to nine months, affecting approximately 50 staff members and prompting community outrage. The hospital must seek public input before proceeding, and alternatives for local obstetric care are being explored with state agencies.
- The state can’t fix Vermont’s hospitals by telling them what to do
James Hodge, a Copley Hospital board member, criticizes Vermont's top-down hospital transformation plan led by the Green Mountain Care Board and Agency of Human Services. He argues that centralized control fails due to lack of expertise and proposes a two-step solution involving standardized reference prices to address cost disparities and inefficiencies across hospitals.