Becker’s Behavioral Health

New England College in Henniker, N.H., has secured $775,000 in federal funding to support its four-year bachelor’s degree program in community mental health, and expand academic and training facilities.  The funding was included in a bipartisan federal appropriations package championed…

Missouri’s MO HealthNet Medicaid program recently shifted to an All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups payment system for acute hospital inpatient services — a shift that is reshaping operations at St. Louis-based SSM Health.  The model replaces a per diem…

Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health has invested an additional $1 million into “A Home for All,” an initiative to address homelessness and housing instability in Mecklenburg County.  The investment builds on the system’s prior $21 million commitment to housing programs in…

Westmont, Ill.-based Stella Mental Health has launched Stella Newton, its second Massachusetts location, expanding access to interventional psychiatry care in the Greater Boston area.  The Newton clinic offers Spravato therapy, intravenous ketamine infusions, deep transcranial magnetic stimulation, accelerated TMS and…

Enlightened Recovery, a provider of behavioral healthcare and substance use disorder treatment, has opened a 22-bed residential treatment facility on its more-than-300-acre main campus in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. The newly constructed facility opened Jan. 12 and expands the organization’s…

In West Virginia, 50 of 55 counties are federally designated mental health professional shortage areas, and some families must travel two to four hours for specialty behavioral healthcare — if it is available at all. Keri Law, MD, a child…

As the push to integrate behavioral health into primary and specialty care gains momentum, several health systems are appointing new leaders to oversee this transformation. These executives are tasked with aligning behavioral health strategies across clinical settings, building out service…

Despite the high prevalence of substance use disorders among hospitalized patients, hospital-based addiction care across the U.S. remains inconsistent, a Cedars-Sinai behavioral health leader told Becker’s. “What’s not variable is the prevalence of alcohol and substance use disorders in hospitals,”…

Under a bill proposed in February to the General Assembly, commercial health insurers in Illinois would be required to assist in paying the state $100 million, an estimated total to assist in covering behavioral health crisis services. The crisis resources…

Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, a safety-net hospital in Paramus, N.J., has completed an expansion of its emergency department that increased capacity from 19 to 47 treatment beds, with a significant focus on behavioral healthcare.  The expansion more than doubles…