BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is hiring two outside advisers to help address an operating budget shortfall and related questions from state regulators.

The not-for-profit will work with Ovation Healthcare , a national support organization, and David Sanville, a former chief financial officer at Windsor’s Mt. Ascutney Hospital, according to a social media announcement.

“Let me say this very clearly: Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is not closing,” acting co-CEO Elizabeth McLarney, an orthopaedic surgeon, said in a Facebook video posted Friday.

“We are fully engaged,” added fellow leader Tony Blofson, a primary care physician, “in ensuring that BMH remains a strong, independent and trusted part of this community.”

Administrators are still calculating the exact shortfall

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