A consensus has formed across five large health systems: Clinical integration of behavioral health is instrumental to improving outcomes across specialties and reducing overall utilization. Elicia Bunch, vice president of behavioral health at Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth, told Becker’s true clinical…
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California’s new nurse-to-patient staffing ratios at acute, freestanding psychiatric hospitals took effect June 1, and in the early days of implementation, 65 beds — roughly half of them youth beds — across four counties were closing in the state. Facilities…
In 2024, nearly 30% of residents in Massachusetts with commercial insurance filled a prescription to treat a behavioral health condition, as diagnoses and medication usage increased across all demographics, WWLP reported June 11. Here are four things to know:
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration unveiled $40 million in funding opportunities across eight grant programs, supporting President Donald Trump’s Great Recovery Initiative, according to a June 11 news release from HHS. The initiative is a coordinated federal…
New Hampshire is the best state in the U.S. for overall child well-being, and Mississippi is the worst, according to a report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The 2026 Kids Count Data Book assigned all U.S. states both a…
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Grand Mental Health, a Tulsa, Okla.-based behavioral health organization, has officially entered the pharmacy space — a move its leadership says is both a financial strategy and a direct extension of its mission to serve some of Oklahoma’s most underserved…
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will provide $10 million to 39 local EMS agencies across the state to expand rural access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment and services. The grants will provide EMS…
The behavioral health sector is under pressure from every direction: workforce shortages, surging patient demand, reimbursement headwinds and the persistent stigma that keeps patients from seeking care. But across the country, health system leaders are finding that technology — deployed…
Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health opened Belle Mead, N.J.-based Carrier Clinic’s $40 million, 43,000-square-foot expansion project to expand care for children and adolescents facing mental health crises. This expansion comes as Carrier Clinic has seen a nearly 30% increase in…
The HHS Office of Inspector General found that Philadelphia-based Community Behavioral Health — a Pennsylvania behavioral health Medicaid managed care organization — did not comply with federal and state requirements when denying behavioral health service requests that required prior authorization. …