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…
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Nitazenes, a class of synthetic opioids, have spread through the U.S. illicit drug supply in recent years, drawing warnings from drug monitoring agencies about their extreme potency and overdose risk. The opioid class was first identified in the U.S. street…
About 38% of inpatient psychiatric mental health registered nurses reported high burnout, while 22% intended to leave their jobs within the next year, according to a study accepted for publication July 27 in the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health…
Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital in Berlin has cut four patient beds and laid off three staff, VTDigger reported Aug. 10. A declining patient census over the last five years led the state’s Department of Mental Health to make reductions, leaving the…
Wellstar Golisano Children’s Hospital of Georgia in Augusta cut the ribbon on the Kisner Foundation and Friends Center for Pediatric Development, Behavioral Health & Wellness in Augusta, Ga., WRDW reported Aug. 10. The facility consolidates pediatric clinics that had operated…
More than two months after California’s new nurse-to-patient staffing ratios for freestanding acute psychiatric hospitals took effect, state lawmakers are pushing regulators to loosen a rule that hospital leaders said has closed beds and destabilized the nursing workforce. Becker’s has…