Description/Objective: 

This investment pays for direct care costs (i.e. psychiatric care, medication therapy, counseling, activities of daily living, etc.) at Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital (VPCH).  VPCH is a 25-bed, acute care hospital located in Berlin, Vermont that offers patient areas designed for care, comfort, and safety. Patients are encouraged to engage in all aspects of prescribed treatment and participate in activities that will facilitate recovery.  The investment funds staff time and patient care at VPCH.

Since its opening in FY 2015, VPCH has been committed to several initiatives related to patient care and patient satisfaction with services. 

Seclusions and restraints have been below established targets for 3 of the last 4 years of reporting, due to VPCH’s participation in SAMHSA’s Six Core Strategies for reducing seclusion and
restraint.  As VPCH has been accepting more acute inpatient stays across the system of care, it has still been able to decrease average length of stay for discharged patients and involuntary readmissions have remained stable over the past year. In 2016 VPCH met its target of lowering readmission rates.