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Health priority rankings: visiting nurses, SASH and referral clinics emerge among top requests

Unidentified Legislative Budget Subcommittee (Health-related priorities) · February 18, 2026
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Summary

After members read and justified their top-five lists, the committee tallied points and forwarded a ranked set of health-program funding priorities to appropriations, with Visiting Nurses Association, SASH, Vermont Free and Referral Clinics, AHEC and Vermont Care Partners among the top-scoring items.

A legislative budget subcommittee on Feb. 18 completed its internal ranking of health-related budget asks and prepared to send the ranked spreadsheet and a short letter to the House appropriations committee.

Members took turns reading their top-five priorities and explaining their choices. Program names that frequently appeared near the top of members' lists included the Visiting Nurses…

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