Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health named Jonathan Posner, MD, system psychiatrist-in-chief and chair of its department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. He will assume the role Oct. 1. Dr. Posner currently serves as executive vice president of the department of psychiatry…
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Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare built a program to screen children who may have autism spectrum disorder and need an earlier evaluation, using referrals from primary care rather than requiring families to navigate a separate developmental pediatrics system on their own.…
Compass Pathways reported that 39% of patients in the 25 milligrams arm of a phase 3 trial for highly chronic treatment-resistant depression achieved a clinically meaningful response after two doses of its synthetic, proprietary formulation of psilocybin and maintained that…
Fond du Lac County, Wis., leaders are considering closing the county’s 16-bed inpatient behavioral healthcare acute psychiatric unit due to rising operating costs, according to a July 7 report from ABC affiliate WBAY. The Fond du Lac County Public Safety…
Vizient projects behavioral health outpatient volumes to grow 22% over the next decade, more than seven times the 3% increase predicted by population trends alone, according to the company’s 2026 Impact of Change forecast. Vizient’s forecast models 10-year demand projections…
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration unveiled more than $281 million through 15 grant programs to support addiction treatment, overdose prevention, mental health services and recovery initiatives, according to a July 6 news release from HHS. Here are…
Primary care physicians across the U.S. are treating a significant mental health burden without the staffing or confidence to fully address it, according to the Commonwealth Fund’s 2025 International Health Policy Survey of primary care physicians in 10 countries. Here…
Not long ago, a patient in a rural emergency department served by Renton, Wash.-based Providence might have waited two days, sometimes up to a week, for a mental health professional to evaluate them. Today, that same patient is typically seen…
Extreme opioid tolerance among illicit fentanyl users may be a major reason methadone induction has become more difficult in the fentanyl era, according to a study published June 9 in the Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Researchers from University of California…
Across the country, behavioral health leaders are redrawing the blueprint for care — smoothing patient access, merging mental and physical health under one roof, and using AI to route patients before a crisis ever reaches the emergency room. Becker’s asked…