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Senate approves amended mental‑health services bill to target high‑acuity patients
Summary
After extended floor debate and a substitution shifting fund routing, the Senate adopted second substitute SB 89 to create a mechanism for connecting high‑acuity Utahns to care through the University of Utah’s neuropsychiatric institute; sponsors said private fundraising and a separate appropriation will support expansion.
The Utah State Senate on Feb. 14 approved second substitute Senate Bill 89, an amendment that alters how certain mental‑health services are organized and funded to reach people in high crisis who fall outside Medicaid or insurance coverage.
Senator Thatcher, sponsor of the measure, told colleagues the bill creates an account and mechanism to connect ‘‘high acuity’’ patients with care through the University of Utah’s Neuropsychiatric Institute. Thatcher said the proposal aims to fill gaps that leave some patients without treatment, arguing the work is central to the state’s duty to ‘‘preserve the individual…
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