UVMMC nurses ratify contract

Dr. John Brumsted, CEO of the University of Vermont Medical Center, fields questions from the Green Mountain Care Board about the hospital’s budget proposal. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
The nurses at the University of Vermont Medical Center have ratified a contract with the hospital with 70 percent of voting nurses in support.Just shy of 1,100 of the union’s 1,800 nurses voted in the election, which concluded Thursday night. The hospital and the nurses came to a tentative agreem