If a private company can run the Vermont State Hospital Canteen, why can’t the state operate it?
A for-profit company is not likely to cater to patients’ needs.
Sinclair urges state Senators to reinstate the Canteen at the Vermont State Hospital
“The canteen could have kept running in the black, but for some reason the VSH administration decided that it was not necessary.”
Anatomy of a state budget cut
Vtdigger.org examines DMH’s decisions to shut down the Canteen at the Vermont State Hospital and to move the department from Burlington to Waterbury.
Canteen was more than just a job for Sinclair
Curtis Sinclair had worked at the Canteen since he was released from the Vermont State Hospital as a patient in 1996.

























