Vermont Moves Ahead With Middlesex Mental Health Facility

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As reported in the Vermont Digger on November 29, 2012, the state began construction on a seven-bed psychiatric facility in Middlesex this week despite a pending appeal of its zoning permit. The residential facility is part of the state's mental health overhaul, started after Tropical Storm Irene destroyed the state's 54-bed psychiatric hospital in Waterbury. Since then, state officials have scrambled to find open beds to treat psychiatric patients, and they say the facility is meant to temporarily meet patient needs until a permanent fix is found. The sooner . . .