Becker’s Behavioral Health

From a 292-bed state-funded psychiatric hospital in Texas to New Mexico’s only children’s emergency psychiatric unit, hospitals and health systems are expanding behavioral health access as demand continues to grow. Here are 60 behavioral health projects to know:

A series of recent studies highlights widening gaps in mental health access, shifting prescription patterns and mixed outcomes across behavioral healthcare in the U.S. The findings point to growing pressures on providers, uneven availability of services and emerging questions around…

First responders were called to Kalamazoo (Mich.) Behavioral Health Hospital 299 times from January 2025 through the week of Oct. 12, 2026, as the facility faces possible license revocation over patient safety violations, according to an Oct. 16 News Channel…

Anxiety and depression increased among LGBTQ+ youth over a two-year period, even as rates of self-harm and suicide attempts declined, according to findings published Oct. 20 by The Trevor Project. The findings come from Project SPARK, an ongoing longitudinal study…

South Bend, Ind.-based Beacon Health System is laying off several social workers as it moves behavioral health crisis screening in its Beacon Kalamazoo (Mich.) emergency department to telehealth, CBS affiliate WWMT reported Oct. 22. “As Beacon Health System continues evaluating…

Florida State University in Tallahassee is building a statewide behavioral healthcare data repository to help researchers and policymakers assess mental health and substance use treatment outcomes across the state. The Florida Behavioral Health Care Data Repository stems from the Tristin…

The California Hospital Association and dozens of hospitals are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration to provide at least $275 million for Medi-Cal inpatient psychiatric services. The request, made in an Oct. 20 letter to the administration, comes as California…

New York City-based NYU Langone Health opened a psychiatric emergency unit in Brooklyn, expanding its capacity to treat patients in behavioral health crises and connect them with hospital- and community-based care. The new Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program at NYU Langone…