Audrey Dutton is a reporter for the Idaho Statesman. Her project will investigate the barriers to effective mental health treatment in rural Idaho and how lack of access is causing serious crises and deaths. She is a 2018 Association of Health Care Journalism Reporting Fellow and her project publications include:
- This mental health worker on wheels meets clients where they are. Even at gas stations.
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Idaho has only 2 independent psychiatric hospitals. Now 1 is headed for bankruptcy.
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Her death leaves her family wondering: Did Idaho’s health care system fail her?
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Police call this mental health crisis program 'a godsend.' Could it work in Idaho?
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The state knew he'd turn violent without meds. So did he. But was anybody checking?
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She went to the hospital for mental illness. She ended up charged with 2 felonies.
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Patients in crisis can become felons under battery law, warns lawmaker urging change
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Bill to fix health care battery law won’t be heard; mentally ill can still be charged
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Idaho paid $8M for 2,400 psych hospitalizations. Guess how much therapy that buys under Medicaid?
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She can’t afford mental health care. Medicaid expansion changes that