Becker’s Behavioral Health

Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare raised its full-year 2026 financial guidance Nov. 4 after reporting third-quarter revenue of $895.3 million, up 5.1% year over year. Same-facility revenue rose 5.2%, driven by a 1.1% increase in patient days and a 4% increase…

Allentown, Penn.-based Blackbird Health opened a pediatric mental health clinic in Sterling, Va., expanding care for children, teens and young adults across Loudoun County. The Sterling clinic, announced Nov. 4, is Blackbird’s fourth Northern Virginia location. It joins the company’s…

On Nov. 4, the National Council for Mental Wellbeing set four policy priorities for the 120th Congress and pledged to work with lawmakers from both parties to expand access to mental health and substance use care. The Washington, D.C.-based organization…

For patients with treatment-resistant depression, the next step after medication and therapy is increasingly interventional psychiatry. Health systems are adding chairs for transcranial magnetic stimulation, moving to accelerated protocols that shrink weeks of treatment into days, and protecting electroconvulsive therapy…

The U.S. Department of Education’s Student Privacy Policy Office demanded Oct. 30 that the Illinois State Board of Education revise its guidance on student mental health screenings, warning that conducting them without written parental consent and separating the results from…

Great Falls, Mont.-based Benefis Health System will cut and consolidate several services starting Dec. 19. According to an email sent to Benefis staff, the decision was made to keep the system from moving into an operating loss and to prepare…

Behavioral healthcare providers and systems are increasingly turning to partnerships with the goal of expanding access to mental health and substance use disorder services amid rising demand and workforce shortages.  Here are 11 to know: 1. UHS and Wounded Warrior…

Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth’s planned behavioral health campus in Springfield, Ore., cleared a key hurdle Nov. 2 when the Springfield City Council voted 5-0 to annex nearly 18 acres on International Way for the project. The campus will house PeaceHealth’s 89-bed…