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...

Report by Anne Donahue The commission charged with analyzing police shootings when a mental health issue is involved has reported that officers acted appropriately – or even were deserving of praise – when they confronted Mark Johnson in June of 2019 and attempted to...

$18 Million from Hospital To Be Shifted MONTPELIER – An $18 million fund left over after construction of new inpatient psychiatric beds by the University of Vermont Health Network was determined to be too costly will now be spent on a broader range of services. UVMHN...

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...

Report by Anne Donahue State and federal regulators on hospital safety have defended the level of requirements for suicide prevention and say hospitals are the ones that still have responsibility – and enough leeway – to assure that patient emotional and therapeutic...

WATERBURY – The Mental Health Integration Council, which was charged by the legislature with “helping to ensure that all sectors of the health care system actively participate in the state’s principles” for a holistic health care system, is nearing the end of its two...