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www.HartfordBusiness.com • August 19, 2019 • Hartford Business Journal 7 like Hartford Stage, Goodspeed Opera House and New Haven's Yale Reper- tory and Long Wharf theatres, which each get $43,325 annually for the next two years. (Hartford's TheaterWorks — which has a much larger subscrip- tion base than several of these venues — is oddly not included here.) Performing-arts centers including The Bushnell, New Haven's Shubert and Waterbury's Palace each get level funding of $196,893. The New Britain Museum of Ameri- can Art and Hill-stead Museum each get $41,045, while the Connecticut Science Center in Hartford will receive $446,626 annually. Additionally, the New Britain Arts Council gets $39,380 and Hartford Arts Council $74,079. "When a new line item for an arts group comes on the budget, we have no knowledge of it beforehand," says Shapiro. She says the specific-group funding "is a never-ending discussion" and one she has no power to alter. Giving individual arts organizations direct state funding has been an issue debated for decades and can sometimes be controversial, especially because there is a lack of oversight on the effec- tiveness of the state's investment. There was a plan by the arts commis- sion about 20 years ago to gradually wind down that funding strategy and transfer those dollars to the commis- sion's competitive peer-review pool. It didn't happen. Instead, an increasing number of arts-and-cultural groups have deter- mined line items were the best way to capture state funding — and without substantive annual review. What the state is left with is an arts commission that has half the money and staff (just five in the office now) than it did 20 years ago to give out hundreds of grants each year. The Connecticut Science Center will receive $446,626 in operating funds from the state over the next two fiscal years. 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SUBSCRIBE BY GOING TO WWW.HARTFORDBUSINESS.COM CLICK ON "SUBSCRIBE" Bristol Hospital bows $1.2M behavioral unit B ristol Hospital, which re- branded as Bristol Health earlier this year, recently opened a new 10-bed behavioral- health unit in its emergency department. Bristol Health said the $1.2 mil- lion, 2,700-square-foot locked unit is meant for patients who arrive at the emergency department (which Bristol Health refers to as its "emergency center") and are undergoing treatment for mental health or substance abuse condi- tions. The unit is meant to free up emergency-center beds and allow medical staff to perform psychi- atric evaluations before decid- ing whether patients should be admitted as hospital inpatients or discharged. Work on the unit, which was par- tially funded by donations, began in March. The hospital said the new outpa- tient unit, which follows on the heels of an inpatient behavioral unit for seniors that opened last year, is the first phase of a planned renovation of its emergency center.

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