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Vail Council Approves Medical Center Plan

An ambitious project to redevelop Vail Valley Medical Center's Vail campus cleared an important hurdle Tuesday when the Vail Town Council voted 6-0 — council member Greg Moffet was absent — to approve a master plan for the work. Read More

Measles Outbreak Raises Concern Awareness

This past January national news outlets spread word of a measles outbreak that began at Disneyland in California. This breaking story was shocking to many as measles had previously been declared eliminated in the U.S. in the year 2000.... Read More

Hospital Partners on Nutrition Program

VAIL — Everyone's been told that “eating healthy” is a key component to losing and maintaining a healthy weight — but what does “eating healthy” mean for you individually? That's a question that Benjamin Stone owner of Sigma... Read More

Pink Vail Exceeds Goals Again

Pink Vail is the biggest ski day to conquer cancer. One hundred percent of the proceeds stay local benefiting the cancer center's Spirit of Survival program” communications manager Emily Tambrino wrote in a press release. “It offers... Read More

A Move To The Mountains For The Best Cancer Care

Bill Schane's Pink Vail fundraising page. He posts similar daily motivators on his website “Don't Go It Alone.” Schane is a man of guiding principles. And they're getting him through some pretty rough patches including a fight for his... Read More

Duct Tape Heals One Woman's Cancer

Anne Trumpower is known as the “duct tape lady” to those who have attended Pink Vail™ the world's biggest ski day to conquer cancer. Since the event's inaugural year in 2012 Trumpower has donned a one-piece ski suit which she has duct... Read More

Watch Your Back: Get A Colonoscopy

Dr. John Schultz is a surgeon with Mountain Surgical Associates at Vail Valley Medical Center. He explains how colon cancer unlike other cancers can actually be prevented. Colon cancer is preventable treatable and beatable and men and... Read More

Expert Traveler Tips

The VVMC's Traveler's Clinic located in Occupational Health Clinic in Avon next to Avon Urgent Care is a great resource for those planning to travel to foreign countries. In addition to supplying information and administering both... Read More