Becker’s Behavioral Health

California’s proposed nurse-to-patient ratio regulations for psychiatric hospitals could cost more than $145.2 million statewide, including $107.7 million for salaries and benefits and $37.5 million for recruitment, training and onboarding costs, according to a March 6 letter from the California…

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services is acquiring online behavioral health provider Talkspace in a deal valued at about $835 million. Talkspace has a network of about 6,000 licensed behavioral health professionals serving all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and…

Eight-four percent of primary care providers said they must play an essential role in meeting rising demand for mental and behavioral health treatment in the U.S, according to a Medscape survey published March 6.  The Health Resources and Services Administration’s…

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is offering $69.1 million in funding opportunities through three behavioral health grant programs.  The funding includes $43 million for the Children’s Mental Health Initiative, which provides community-based mental health services for individuals…

California is investing $65 million to convert six vacant facilities in Los Angeles into a housing and mental health treatment campus. When complete, the state-owned properties will be transformed into a 162-bed behavioral health campus, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said…

When Carl Hoopes started rounding after taking over as COO and executive vice president of Tulsa, Okla.-based Grand Mental Health in October, he found confusion around accountability for operational outcomes. In turn, this made it difficult to troubleshoot problems or…

In the four weeks after President Donald Trump and federal health agencies raised unfounded risks about using Tylenol (acetaminophen) during pregnancy, orders for the pain medication declined 10% in emergency departments, according to a new study.  At the same time, outpatient prescriptions for leucovorin,…

Behavioral health care in the United States is often delivered like a broken relay race. Patients move from the emergency department to inpatient care, then outpatient treatment, digital tools, and community providers. Somewhere along the way, the baton gets dropped.…

The rise in telemedicine over the past several years hasn’t translated to more behavioral healthcare access in rural areas, according to a March 5 study in JAMA Network Open. Researchers from Boston-based Harvard Medical School and Providence, R.I.-based Brown University…

The Trump administration is reviewing federal policies on antipsychotic drug use in nursing homes — a shift that could affect how facilities treat residents with dementia — The Washington Post reported March 6.  Federal regulators have spent more than a…