Community Forum
There will be an information session regarding the impacts of the pending closure of the Vermont State Hospital from 5-7PM at the CVPS/Leahy Health Education Center of the Rutland Regional Medical Center at 160 Allen Street Rutland, Vermont.The Rutland Regional Medical Center has been working with the State of Vermont for several months on planning for the closure of the Vermont State Hospital. Discussions have focused on expanding capacity of the Psychiatric Services Inpatient Unit from 14 beds to 25 beds with the expectation that the expanded unit would serve as a regional option for patients currently be served at VSH. This forum will focus on changes in planning that now anticipate new construction of a new building attached to Rutland Regional, rather than renovation of existing space. A description of the programmatic design and the preliminaryarchitectural layout will be discussed. There will be time to provide feedback and to ask questions.