AI is moving from pilot project to daily reality across behavioral healthcare. Systems are using it to ease documentation burden, train crisis-response staff and flag patients at risk of relapse. On the other hand, regulators, unions and clinicians are pushing…
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Nevada reduced the percentage of children with behavioral health disabilities placed in psychiatric residential treatment facilities from 35% to 16% since January 2025, The Nevada Independent reported Aug. 13. The decline comes as the state works to comply with a…
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health is approaching behavioral health access challenges by first addressing one quality concern in particular: whether patients are actually getting better. That’s the premise behind the health system’s push to embed measurement-based care across its behavioral…
Massachusetts is moving to restrict kratom sales statewide after Department of Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein, MD, PhD, issued an emergency order temporarily placing all forms of the substance into Schedule I under Massachusetts law. The restriction will take effect…
Access to mental healthcare remains out of reach for millions of Americans, with some states facing more severe shortages of mental health professionals than others, new federal data shows. The Health Resources and Services Administration’s Bureau of Health Workforce published…
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Hendersonville, N.C.-based UNC Health Pardee completed construction of the 23-bed inpatient Pardee Adolescent Behavioral Health Center at Pardee Hospital with an Aug. 12 ribbon cutting. The center is awaiting final state licensure review, according to an Aug. 13 news release…
Oregon State Hospital Superintendent Sean Murphy is out as head of the state-run mental health hospital less than a month after his first day in the role, the Oregon Capital Chronicle reported Aug. 12. Oregon Health Authority Interim Director Fariborz…
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Sara Carter, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner released a toolkit Aug. 12 focused on addressing homelessness and addiction through treatment. The “Best…
California highlighted 15 Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program projects that reached construction and ribbon opening milestones in the second quarter of 2026. The projects expand crisis, residential, youth, tribal and community-based behavioral health treatment capacity across the state, according to…
Behavioral health leaders are grappling with a workforce paradox: Demand for services continues to grow, yet funding uncertainty and inadequate reimbursement rates are forcing some providers to reduce staff and scale back services. Here are 12 layoffs to know: 1.…