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Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, in Bennington, hopes to open their new 12-bed adolescent psychiatric unit within a year-and-a-half after receiving approval from the Green Mountain Care Board.
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Bennington hospital will build adolescent psych unit despite opposition from Brattleboro Retreat
Howard Weiss-Tisman
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Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington is set to build a new 12-bed psychiatric unit for adolescents. This comes as state health officials say they're seeing an increase of youth with symptoms of mental illness that require inpatient care.
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