The summer poll asks, “Does Vermont need a new youth inpatient psychiatric unit in Bennington?” In February, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center sent an application for a Certificate of Need to the Green Mountain Care Board.
The hospital plans to spend $9.5 million on 12 new beds, but the Brattleboro Retreat, which currently operates Vermont’s only inpatient psychiatric unit for adolescents, has called the project’s necessity into question, as has Disability Rights Vermont.
As usual, Counterpoint wants to know what you think.
