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California will award up to $4 million for psychedelic treatment research involving veterans. The California Initiative for Precision Medicine, part…
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Nashua, N.H.-based Southern New Hampshire Health tapped psychiatrist Rhett Donathan, DO, as behavioral health medical director for Southern New Hampshire Medical Center. Dr. Donathan joins from Three Rivers Medical Center in Louisa, Ky., where he has led the behavioral health…
Aurora-based Children’s Hospital Colorado is adding a pediatric mental health emergency unit and crisis stabilization services at its South Campus in Highlands Ranch, Colo., funded in part by $3.4 million in Douglas County opioid settlement dollars. Douglas County commissioners joined…
A patient in a behavioral health crisis is stabilized in the emergency department and sent home with a list of phone numbers. Whether they reach anyone, and whether the health system ever finds out, is an open question. A stronger…
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Salt Lake City-based Huntsman Mental Health Foundation received a $35 million gift from Gail Miller and the Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Foundation to support a new translational research building at Huntsman Mental Health Institute at the University of…
Seven states now ban AI therapy chatbots, and Pennsylvania’s medical board has taken a chatbot developer to court in what the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., said appears to be the first such case under a…
The American Medical Association adopted a policy to ensure deprescribing is considered part of routine patient-centered care. “It is important that we recognize deprescribing as an essential, routine component of medication optimization and high-quality clinical care,” AMA Board Member Ilse…
Healthcare security teams already collect signals from across their systems. The challenge is connecting thousands of alerts quickly enough to act. That urgency is growing. The average healthcare data breach costs $7.42 million, according to IBM, while attackers are using…
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Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Health acquired Wheeling, W.Va.-based Orchard Park Hospital Nov. 1, according to a news release. The hospital now operates as a remote campus of WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital and has been renamed WVU Medicine Healthy Minds – Kids.…
CMS finalized its 2027 Medicare physician fee schedule Nov. 4, raising payment for psychiatric collaborative care and extending higher valuations for timed behavioral health services to tobacco cessation and substance use intervention. The behavioral health gains come as overall Medicare…
The share of U.S. adolescents with depression fell by about a quarter in three years, to 15.4% in 2024 from 20.8% in 2021, according to Mental Health America’s “State of Mental Health in America 2026” report, released Nov. 9. Adults…
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