A bill now in the House would allow nine of the Berlin psychiatric hospital’s 25 beds to be relicensed next year as a residential facility for patients involved in the criminal justice system.
Discharge totals from Vermont psychiatric inpatient facilities show how the overflow from an already strained statewide mental health care system fell on emergency departments.
BOSTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending almost $1.9 million to the State of Vermont to reimburse the costs of relocating patients at the former Vermont State Hospital after it flooded during Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.