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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