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Brendan has schizophrenia.

2% of the population has schizophrenia or bipolar type 1.

⅓ of those are the most severely affected.

These are the people that ACT teams treat.

ACT = Assertive Community Treatment

ACT =

a team treatment approach
designed to provide
comprehensive,
community-based psychiatric
treatment, rehabilitation, and
support to persons with serious
and persistent mental illness
such as schizophrenia.

ACT Fact #1

In one year, ACT teams represented 4,048 clients.

Prior to becoming clients, these individuals used
an average of 70.9 psychiatric hospital days per year.

One year post-ACT, these clients used
only 27.2 hospital days per year.

ACT Fact #2

How much money was saved by this reduction
in psychiatric hospital days?

The estimated cost savings associated with bed day
reductions such as these is over 105 million dollars.

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