A third person who was served by Idaho’s Assertive Community Treatment, or ACT program, died this month in the Boise area.
ACT is a medical and psychiatric treatment program that has been in place for decades. It provided a range of services, which included funding for mental health providers and nurses to travel to meet with patients in their community. That part of the program’s funding was cut in December.
The cause of the person’s death has not been released. However, Laura Scuri, who co-owns Access Behavioral Health Services in Boise and ran the region’s ACT team, said she believes the outreach that’s part of that program might have helped the individual who died get needed medical treatment…