Take Action
Write, call, or email the contacts below. You do not need to be an expert. A brief, personal message carries more weight than any policy document. Please share:
- Your support for keeping the BMH Birthing Center open
- How you, your family, or your community has depended on these services — or how closure would affect you
- That the economic, demographic, and public health consequences of closure would be irreversible, and that you are asking decision-makers to exhaust every alternative before acting
The BMH Birthing Center has served generations of families in this community. The decision-makers need to hear from YOU before we lose this vital community resource.
Actions
Speak Up!
Push for increased Medicaid payments for birth services.
Express the community’s need for birth services to BMH’s Board and executive leadership — and thank them for fighting to keep these services here.
Who to contact:
BMH Board of Trustees
bmhvt.org/contact — ask that your message be directed to the Board of Trustees
State Senators and Representatives
Find your legislators by town: legislature.vermont.gov/people
Vermont Governor Phil Scott
governor.vermont.gov/email | 802-828-3333
Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB)
GMCB.Board@vermont.gov
Agency of Human Services (AHS)
AHS.Communications@Vermont.gov | 802-241-0440
Department of Vermont Health Access (DVHA)
humanservices.vermont.gov/department-contacts
U.S. Congresswoman Becca Balint
balint.house.gov/contact | 802-652-2450
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
sanders.senate.gov | Brattleboro office: 802-254-8732
U.S. Senator Peter Welch
welch.senate.gov/email-peter | 802-863-2525
Show Up!
Come to an event to show your support in keeping the BMH Birthing Center Open.
July 4, 2026: March in the Brattleboro Fourth of July Parade with Four Seasons OB-GYN and Midwifery and BMH Birthing Center providers and staff! Families welcome. Meet at the Preston Lot on Flat St by 9:30am.
July 7, 2026: Come to the Brattleboro Selectboard Meeting to help pass a resolution in support of the BMH Birthing Center. The town supporting local birth puts pressure on the hospital to keep the birthing center open! 6:15pm in Room 230 of the Municipal Center, Main St.
July 14, 2026: Attend the open BMH Board Meeting to show your support for keeping birth local. You don’t have to speak; your face in the crowd is enough to show you care! Families welcome. Exact time and location TBD (as of 7/1), expected to be around 11:45am. Check back here for details as we get closer.
July 16, 2026: The Athens, VT Selectboard is working on passing a resolution in support of the BMH Birthing Center. 7pm at the Athens Town Offices.
Give!
Charitable gifts to the BMH Foundation help replenish the endowment keeping the birth center alive. In the short term we need philanthropy; long term, systemic policy change is essential.
Link: https://www.bmhvt.org/giving/donate-online/
Select “Birthing Center” as the designee!
Save Birth at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital 