State looks to use modular unit in Waterbury as secure facility for mental...
Vermont State Hospital. VTD/Josh Larkin The state is exploring whether a modular high-security facility could be built in Waterbury to house mental health patients who are required to be held securely...
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Vermont State Hospital. VTD file photo/Josh Larkin The town of Berlin made it clear at a public meeting Wednesday that it wants the state’s new 25-bed acute care state hospital built on a seven-acre...
View ArticleLast remnant of 1,500 acre Vermont State Hospital farm to be sold
The last remaining slice of a state farm that once count 1,500 acres and the second largest barn in Vermont is finally going to be sold. A 36-acre parcel in Duxbury, the only piece left of a massive...
View ArticleUPDATED: FEMA balks at price tag for Irene damage to state property
FEMA representative Richard Serino speaks to Royalton residents. VTD/Stacy Tatman The Federal Emergency Management Agency has dropped a $120 million fiscal bombshell on Vermont and it landed with...
View ArticleRebuffing the opacity charge
Republican candidate for governor, Sen. Randy Brock, speaks to reporters outside the defunct Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury. Photo by Anne Galloway Reporters congregated in the empty parking lot...
View ArticleState is in the throes of negotiations with FEMA
Gov. Peter Shumlin in Waterbury. Photo by Taylor Dobbs It could be three to four more weeks before the Federal Emergency Management Agency issues a decision on funding for the Waterbury State Office...
View ArticleShumlin says the state can’t wait for answers from FEMA, his administration...
Gov. Peter Shumlin, left, and Jeb Spaulding, secretary of the Agency of Administration, meet with reporters at the Waterbury State Office Complex on Sept. 12, 2012. The state is no closer to...
View ArticleIrene recovery chief hails progress on FEMA funding process
Irene Recovery Officer Sue Minter speaks at a hearing on the Waterbury State Office Complex on Friday. VTD Photo/Nat Rudarakanchana Vermont’s Irene Recovery Officer Susan Minter said Friday that...
View Article‘Going to Waterbury: An Elegy,’ a closure event for the Vermont State Hospital
The Vermont State Hospital in its early days. Since its founding by the Legislature in 1892, the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury has been a place of healing and care, abuse and warehousing,...
View ArticleNew Vermont State Hospital could cost $38 million — $10 million more than...
BISHCA Commissioner Steve Kimbell. VTD/Josh Larkin State officials planning the new psychiatric hospital in Berlin are preparing for a “worst-case scenario,” which would cost the state and taxpayers...
View ArticleFEMA says Vermont State Hospital and other Waterbury buildings were not...
Gov. Peter Shumlin, left, and Jeb Spaulding, secretary of the Agency of Administration, meet with reporters at the Waterbury State Office Complex on Sept. 12, 2012. The Federal Emergency Management...
View ArticleSpaulding: Waterbury State Office Complex on track “no matter what we get”...
Vermont State Hospital. VTD/Josh Larkin The Shumlin administration painted an optimistic portrait of the state’s financial future the day after the Federal Emergency Management Agency dealt the state a...
View ArticleCost of state’s new community mental health system to jump $20 million next year
State patients are treated on the fourth floor of the Tyler Building on the Brattleboro Retreat campus. Photo by Randy Holhut/The Commons The annual cost of implementing the Legislature’s new mental...
View ArticleQ & A with Jay Batra: Outgoing medical director for the state’s mental health...
Jay Batra. Courtesy photo. Dr. Jay Batra, medical director for the Department of Mental Health, will leave his position at the end of this month to take over as Vermont Health CO-OP’s chief medical...
View ArticleMedical professionals say ER treatment for psychiatric patients is woefully...
Dr. Mark Depman, Central Vermont Medical Center. Photo by Andrew Stein Standing in a steel-reinforced psychiatric room in Central Vermont Medical Center, Dr. Mark Depman explains how Vermont’s dearth...
View ArticleRecap 2012: FEMA funding for state office complex, culverts on hold
Gov. Peter Shumlin and Michael Obuchowski, commissioner of the Department of Buildings and General Services in Waterbury. Photo by Taylor Dobbs Sixteen months after Tropical Storm Irene dumped a foot...
View ArticleState paid $2.4 million for psychiatric hospital site in Berlin
Part of the site for the Green Mountain Psychiatric Care Center. Photo by Alicia Freese The state paid $2.4 million for the 6.5 acre site for the new Green Mountain Psychiatric Care Center in Berlin....
View ArticleFEMA to announce funding for new psychiatric hospital on Tuesday
Vermont State Hospital. VTD/Josh Larkin Since Tropical Storm Irene inundated the Vermont State Hospital and the Waterbury State Office Complex, state officials have worked tirelessly with the Federal...
View ArticleState breaks ground on psychiatric hospital in Berlin; FEMA and insurance...
Gov. Peter Shumlin speaks at the new site of the Berlin psychiatric facility. Photo by Anne Galloway State officials broke ground on Tuesday for the state’s new 25-bed psychiatric hospital in Berlin....
View ArticleRedux: Rough estimate in combined FEMA and insurance funding for state...
File photo of Gov. Peter Shumlin after the flood at the Waterbury State Office Complex The roughly $30 million in federal and insurance funds that the state is said to receive towards $42.8 million in...
View ArticleState readies secure Middlesex facility, settles with neighbors
Acting Commissioner of Mental Health Frank Reed and facility director Debra Olivetti at the inside entrance to the new seven-bed secure residential mental health facility in Middlesex that is almost...
View ArticleEmergency room wait times for Vermont psychiatric patients hit a high
Vermonters with severe mental illnesses are spending more time in emergency rooms waiting for placement in psychiatric facilities than they have since the state began tracking the issue in the wake of...
View ArticleSecretary of State Jim Condos announces Vermont State Archives opens state...
News Release — Secretary of State Jim Condos July 1, 2013 Contact Zoe Newman, 802.828.2148 Montpelier, VT – Secretary of State Jim Condos announced today that more than forty cubic feet of records...
View ArticleAfter Irene: ER wait times for psychiatric patients longer than ever
Construction materials outside an Agency of Human Services building in the State Office Complex in Waterbury after Tropical Storm Irene. Photo by Josh Larkin/VTDigger It has been two years and four...
View ArticleNew state psychiatric hospital brings care into the 21st century
Vermont’s new state psychiatric hospital with 25 beds is preparing to receive its first patients in August. Photo by Roger Crowley/for VTDigger BERLIN – The nearly complete $38 million Vermont...
View ArticleVermont cuts the ribbon on a new era in mental health care
Gov. Peter Shumlin is joined by lawmakers Tuesday as they cut the ribbon Tuesday opening the new state psychiatric hospital in Berlin. Joining Shumlin (from left) are Sen. Jane Kitchel, D-Caledonia;...
View ArticleBerlin psychiatric hospital to be fully online by next month, lawmakers told
From left, Mental Health Commissioner Paul Dupre, deputy commissioner Frank Reed and medical director Jay Batra testify at a House Mental Health Oversight Committee meeting Tuesday. Photo by Katie...
View ArticleStory and slideshow: Three years after Irene, Waterbury complex stretches for...
Mike Stevens points to some of the original buildings at the former Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury. Photo by Hilary Niles/VTDigger WATERBURY — On Aug. 28, 2011, Tropical Storm Irene began flooding...
View ArticleSpecial Report: Two suicide attempts highlight troubles at the Brattleboro...
State patients are treated on the fourth floor of the Tyler Building on the Brattleboro Retreat campus. Photo by Randy Holhut/The Commons Two teenagers have attempted suicide in the past five months at...
View ArticleCharting separate paths proves difficult for Brattleboro Retreat and state
The Brattleboro Retreat, shown here earlier this month, is facing serious financial difficulties. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger When the floodwaters of Tropical Storm Irene surged into the Vermont...
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