A nationwide quality improvement initiative led by University of California Davis Health in Sacramento, the American Academy of Pediatrics and partner organizations increased screening and follow-up care for adolescent substance use and mental health concerns across pediatric primary care clinics.…
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The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) responses submitted overnight showed higher rates of depression severity and thoughts of self-harm or being better off dead, according to an Aug. 18 Epic Research report. Researchers examined more than 600,000 PHQ-9 scores for U.S.…
Tulsa, Okla.-based Grand Mental Health, a certified community behavioral health clinic network, is rebuilding parts of its business model to reduce reliance on Medicaid as the program faces federal work requirements and state-level cost-cutting pressure. About 80% of Grand’s revenue…
Bakersfield, Calif.-based Kern Psychiatric Health and Wellness Center reported that certain data was accessed without authorization after unusual activity was discovered on its management company’s computer network, according to an Aug. 19 notice. Genesis Healthcare Management discovered the unusual activity…
The FDA cleared Amygdala Neurosciences’ Investigational New Drug application for ANS-858, allowing the company to move the drug into clinical development. ANS-858, the company’s lead clinical candidate, is a selective, reversible, orally bioavailable inhibitor of aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2), according…
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The cost of getting high on opioids has fallen more than 90% over the last two decades as illicit drugs have become more potent and overdose deaths have risen, according to an Aug. 24 New York Times report. Here are…
The Trump administration is investing $144 million in Alabama’s rural healthcare system. The investment will support 138 grants to expand access to care, modernize healthcare technology and infrastructure, and strengthen the rural healthcare workforce, according to an Aug. 24 news…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Centerstone named Lindsay Bennett as its new chief revenue officer. Ms. Bennett has more than two decades of healthcare finance and operations experience, with a background in revenue cycle management, financial planning and analysis, business intelligence, operational transformation,…
About 21% of staff at Solnit South, Connecticut’s psychiatric hospital for children based in Middletown, are out on workers’ compensation for injuries sustained on the job, the Hartford Courant reported Aug. 24. Lawmakers have called the situation a “safety crisis,”…
The age-adjusted death rate for alcohol-induced deaths among U.S. adults aged 45 and older increased from 2014 to 2024, according to an Aug. 20 report from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. Death rates increased from 19.5 per 100,000…