*** News Flash! July 1, 2009 ***

Senator Bernie Sanders (VT)

. . . appears on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olberman to discuss healthcare reform. View the interview with Sen. Sanders here.
. . . announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services designated the Addison County five town area as underserved in terms of access to health care. Such designation was needed in order to pursue federal funding to establish a community health center or Federally Qualified Health Center.
Read more here.

WHO WE ARE . . .
We are a group of citizens from the Five Town area in Vermont's northeastern Addison County, (Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven, and Starksboro) who represent a variety of backgrounds within and outside of health and dental care. We are interested in community building and furthering the health of our families, neighbors, and friends through improving access to health and dental care.

We believe that healthy communities begin with healthy families, neighbors, and friends and that self-determination to practice healthy lifestyles should not be limited by ability to pay. We are guided by a system of beliefs recognizing health and dental care as basic rights to which all are entitled, and we are impatient to turn these beliefs into reality.

community • integration • wellness • prevention