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Almost three months after cuts to acute behavioral health services in Idaho, three former patients who used the service have died.
File photo: WWAMI medical student Luke Verst, draws a needle as he practices administering doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at the University of Idaho WWAMI Anatomy Lab in Moscow.
Zach Wilkinson
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Moscow-Pullman Daily News
The front entrance of Idaho's State Hospital North, located in Orofino. A report by the Idaho Association of Community Providers predicts that service hubs including this one could be affected by an influx of patients due to cuts in acute behavioral health services including Assertive Community Treatment, or ACT.
Courtesy of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare