State Hospital Employees Not Sure What Future Holds For Them

"The 800-pound gorilla in the mental health room is whether to renovate the damaged state hospital building or move in another direction such as a new facility, or several regional ones – all solutions the state has been unsuccessfully wrestling with for a decade now…"

VSH Officials held a heavily attended, all-employee meeting today at the Best Western in Waterbury, but concrete answers to employee questions were hard to come by. Many employees, however, seemed pleased just to be hearing something, no matter how unsure officials were about many things.