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Senate advances bill to certify and expand recovery residences, sets Oct. 15 health-department report
Summary
S186 would direct the Department of Health to recommend a certification program for recovery residences, establish grievance and data systems and identify sustainable funding; the Senate adopted the committee report and ordered third reading.
The Vermont Senate advanced S186, a bill directing the Department of Health to develop a recommended certification program for recovery residences and recovery centers, and to report back to the Legislature by Oct. 15, 2024.
The sponsor for the committee on health and welfare said the bill responds to a shortage of recovery-residence capacity and the need to integrate housing-based supports with medical treatment. "Recovery is critical to a life sustaining chronic illness of addiction," the presenter said, and described the hub-and-spoke model that provides medically assisted treatment followed by social-support services in recovery residences.
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