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Arizona’s Missing Mental Health Lifeline | Tucson News
Arizona promised secure, court-ordered treatment for its most severely ill psychiatric patients in 2019—but seven years later, those facilities still haven’t opened. Stalled by funding, legal battles, and contractor delays, the state’s Medicaid agency is just beginning to seek providers, leaving patients like Larry Bootsma—whose tragic death advocates say might have been prevented—without the stable, long-term care they desperately needed. With severe mental illness patients often cycling through emergency rooms and incarceration, the absence of these secure homes isn’t just a gap in…
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