Becker’s Behavioral Health

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn., said it has implemented a systemwide behavioral health model that reduced behavioral health boarding admissions by 78% and shortened patients’ length of stay by more than 50%.  The hospital credited…

Health systems are investing in interventional psychiatry programs as demand for treatment-resistant depression therapies rises and payer policies evolve.  In 2021, an estimated 8.9 million U.S. adults were treated for major depressive disorder each year, and about 2.8 million —…

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services recorded a net income of $1.5 billion in 2025, up from $1.1 billion in 2024, according to its Feb. 25 financial report.  Eight things to know:  1. The for-profit system reported an operating…

Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare reported a fourth-quarter net loss attributable to Acadia of $13.02 per diluted share after recording a $996.2 million non-cash goodwill impairment charge, the company said in its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results.  Here are five things…

Becky Dvorak, MSN, RN, regional vice president of behavioral health at St. Louis-based SSM Health, told Becker’s how the system is breaking the cycle of emergency department behavioral health boarding by connecting with community partners, networking groups and other health…

The National Academy of Medicine released a framework in May 2025 to guide the development and use of trustworthy, human-centered AI across healthcare, specifically telehealth and behavioral health settings. “An Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine: Essential…

Oregon’s Behavioral Health Talent Council has issued a final report outlining short-, mid- and long-term strategies to address the state’s behavioral health workforce crisis.  The report, submitted to Gov. Tina Kotek and state agencies, includes 17 action plans with 74…

Topeka, Kan.-based Stormont Vail Health has opened the Stormont Vail Outpatient Behavioral Health Center, expanding access to outpatient mental healthcare services for children and adults.  The center offers individualized treatment plans, psychiatric evaluations, medication management and therapeutic interventions delivered by…

ChatGPT Health inconsistently triggered suicide-crisis alerts cases in which users described specific plans for self-harm, according to a study published Feb. 23 in Nature Medicine. The evaluation — led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai…

A study led by Los Angeles-based UCLA Health found that an accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation protocol delivered over five consecutive days produced outcomes comparable to the standard six-week course for patients with treatment-resistant depression. The study was published June 15…