Not a school or a hospital…

The Idaho State School & Hospital, which provides residential care and treatment, both short- and long-term, to the severely impaired who can’t remain in the community, still has people showing up at its door demanding to be admitted to the emergency room or receive other hospital care, Rep. Fred Wood, R-Burley, told the House today - though, he said, “ISSH has not been a hospital, nor a school, for 25 years. There’s a public perception that is incorrect.” So now there’s legislation to change the institution’s name to the Southwest Idaho Treatment Center. The measure, SB 1082, passed the House today on a 67-1 vote, with just Rep. Dick Harwood, R-St. Maries, objecting. It earlier passed the Senate unanimously; the bill now heads to the governor’s desk.