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Lawmakers question last‑minute sale of Anna Philbrook Center, seek review
Summary
Rep. Mary Jane Wallner presented HB 15-69 to repeal budget language that offered the Anna Philbrook Center for sale. Witnesses from NAMI and DHHS described the building’s history, the transition of a 16‑bed transitional housing program, and DHHS said a procurement is in progress to preserve 92 transitional beds statewide. Committee sent the matter to Division 3 for a field visit and further review.
Representative Mary Jane Wallner introduced HB 15-69, which would repeal budget language directing the sale of the Anna Philbrook Center (often called the Philbrook Center) on the New Hampshire Hospital campus. Wallner described the building’s decades‑long role as a children’s psychiatric facility, its later conversion to office space and most recently its partial use as a 16‑bed transitional housing program for people leaving New Hampshire Hospital.
Wallner said the sale language appeared late in the budget process with…
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