Author: Ella Ruder

Waterbury, Conn.-based Wellmore and Hartford, Conn.-based the Village for Families and Children plan to merge operations in the coming months. The combined organization would employ nearly 1,000 staff members and serve 30,000 families annually across 100 municipalities in the state,…

The Defense Department’s “Annual Report on Suicide in the Military” reported 471 service member suicide deaths in 2024, down from 531 in 2023. Here are four things to know:

As autism diagnoses climb and costs and utilization rise, many payers are tightening utilization management. Maryland Heights, Mo.-based Magellan Health’s Autism Connections — developed in 2009 amid expanding state autism coverage mandates — has taken a different route, emphasizing clinical…

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision March 31 that a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for minors may violate the First Amendment when applied to talk therapy, reversing a lower court decision and remanding the case.  Chiles…

Newport News, Va.-based Riverside Health has appointed Jack Field as president of its Riverside Mental Health and Recovery Center in Hampton, Va., effective April 6.  Mr. Fields succeeds Stacey Johnson, who was recently named president of Riverside Doctors’ Hospital Williamsburg…

Texas leaders said the state will move forward with its own research program on ibogaine after no drugmaker met funding requirements.  Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows said the state had previously allocated $50 million for…

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Children’s Health and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital have joined a national network focused on trauma and bereavement care. The designation is part of an initiative led by the Trauma and Grief Center at the Meadows Mental…

The American Society of Addiction Medicine has released a new volume of the ASAM Criteria establishing dedicated treatment standards and admission criteria for adolescents and transition-age youths with substance use disorder. “Adolescents and Transition-Aged Youth” is part of the fourth…

Three federal lawmakers have introduced the Child Suicide Preventon Act to address rising suicide rates among children and young adults. The legislation would provide funding for evidence-based training on youth suicide prevention for current and future healthcare professionals, according to…

Missouri agencies are alerting residents to the growing presence of nitazenes, a class of synthetic opioids some of which are over five to 10 times more potent than fentanyl, increasingly detected statewide.  The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services,…