The move will affect more than 100 patients and five workers at the center, which has not been filling open positions.
In the report, Michael Foust, executive director of Bozeman, Mont.-based Gallatin Mental Health, attributed the closure to reduced Medicaid funding. He told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle: “We cannot continue at the rates provided to us and make it work. My hope is to have a footprint of some level in Livingston. We just don’t know what that looks like.”
Mr. Foust said the patients will need to go somewhere else for treatment, but the Livingston Healthcare and Community Health Partners is working with the center to ensure patients are linked with another care location, according to the report. As for affected workers, he indicated there is a desire to move them to roles in Bozeman.
Western Montana Mental Health has already closed offices in Libby and Dillon.
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