Vote of No Confidence

The UVMMC Board of Trustees, CEO John Brumsted and President Eileen Whalen

• UVM Medical Center has fallen in the rankings. 2017 marked the first year in the past seven that UVMMC fell out of the top 20 academic hospitals in the country

• The UVMMC Administration has provoked the first Unfair Labor Practices Strike in the history of UVM Medical Center.

• The UVMMC Board of Trustees has Increased Executive Compensation to its highest levels at the expense of front-line caregivers, which reflects the Trustees’ misplaced priorities


UVM Medical Center, and the hospitals and clinics in the UVM Medical Center network, belong to us, the people of Vermont and Upstate New York, and we demand that they are accountable to us.

To: The UVMMC Board of Trustees, CEO John Brumsted and President Eileen Whalen
From: [Your Name]

We the undersigned, vote NO CONFIDENCE in the UVM Medical Center Board of Trustees and the two top administrators, CEO John Brumsted and President Eileen Whalen.

Under their regime, UVM Medical Center has:
• Fallen in the rankings. 2017 marked the first year in the past seven that UVMMC fell out of the top 20 academic hospitals in the country
• Provoked the first Unfair Labor Practices Strike in the history of UVM Medical Center.
• Increased Executive Compensation to its highest levels at the expense of front-line caregivers, which reflects the Trustees’ misplaced priorities

UVM Medical Center, and the hospitals and clinics in the UVM Medical Center network, belong to us, the people of Vermont and Upstate New York, and we demand that they are accountable to us.