Care board pushes off vote on inpatient psychiatric care funds
VTDigger
The Green Mountain Care Board continues to wrestle with how to handle funds held by the University of Vermont Health Network earmarked for increasing inpatient psychiatric care.
Regulators were set to vote Wednesday on whether to give the state’s largest health care provider greater leeway on how it spends what remains of $21 million in surplus profits from 2017. But Owen Foster, the care board chair, pulled the question in order to give staff and board members more time to consider a more restrictive approach.
“I personally would like a bit more time to think about this because it is really critically important,” said Foster, pointing to the significant number of public comments on the issue.