WATERBURY — Projects intended to keep Vermonters out of emergency departments during mental health crises are coming to nearly every part of the state. Of the 12 submissions generated last year by the Department of Mental Health’s request for proposals for mental...
BENNINGTON – The state legislature budgeted $9.225 million in fiscal year 2024 for the construction of an adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, indicating its approval of the project. The Department of Mental Health told...
MONTPELIER – A years-long legislative effort to create a separate forensic mental health system culminated in the passage of a law that will, by next summer, turn the four and five-bed units of the Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital into a locked “therapeutic community...
BURLINGTON – Howard Center, the agency serving people with mental health diagnoses and developmental disabilities in Chittenden County, will cease to offer representative payee services as of July 1, leaving clients in a financial pinch. A representative payee is a...
MONTPELIER – Arrests by law enforcement may become a more common sight in Vermont’s emergency departments. Owing to a change in law, police can arrest and remove hospital patients or visitors for certain misdemeanors without a warrant even if an officer was not...
