State pushes ahead with mental health expansion

​Al Gobeille, the secretary of the Agency of Human Services. VTDigger file photo
State officials and hospital administrators have begun moving forward with a major expansion of Vermont’s mental health system, less than a month after Gov. Phil Scott signed two bills supporting the projects.
Officials say planning is “well under way” for the upgrade’s centerpiece – an acute inpatient psychiatric facility to be built University of Vermont Health Network in Berlin