States Newsroom reports a Boise family of medical providers is leaving Idaho over the criminal transgender bathroom ban, seeing it as a severe attack on human dignity.
After the governor signed into law a bill to reinstate cut Medicaid mental health programs, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare announced it would start reimbursing providers for the full services.
District 9 Representatives are: John Shirts (208) 550-3190, Judy Boyle (208) 355-3225, and Senator Brandon Shippy (208) 332-1325.
A man in his 40s, who had severe mental illness and lived with his family in the Boise area, died recently after Idaho cut critical mental health services, according to a clinic owner who leads the local treatment team.
A former patient of an Idaho program that sought to keep people with severe psychosis on their medication has died, providers said. It was the third death since the Idaho Health and Welfare Department cut the program, called Assertive Community Treatment, in December amid statewide budget shortages.
The 36-year-old man had severe schizophrenia, but he was healthy as long as he took his meds. For about six months, Medicaid was paying nurses from an Idaho Falls counseling practice to make sure he did just that. The nurses traveled to the rural area where he lived — sometimes with his brother, at
Idaho opened Headwaters Behavioral Health Center in Idaho Falls in late November, marking completion of a multi-year effort to bring intensive inpatient mental health care for children and…
BOISE, Idaho — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on a challenge to Idaho’s law banning transgender women and girls from participating in sports that align with their gender identity.
The Idaho Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit from a bidder for an Idaho Medicaid contract to run mental health services.
