Author: Mariah Taylor

Mercy Health-Springfield (Ohio) Regional Medical Center reduced emergency department lengths of stay for behavioral health patients by 64% thanks to a collaboration with a healthcare consulting firm.

Salem-based Oregon State Hospital has received a second immediate jeopardy warning this year after the death of a patient, the Oregon Capital Chronicle reported June 6.

Southaven, Miss.-based Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto is facing criticism for transferring some psychiatric patients to jail to wait for evaluation and treatment, ProPublica reported May 28.

Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health was selected as the new clinical contractor for Hampstead (N.H.) Hospital and Residential Treatment Facility.

Tampa General Hospital and the University of South Florida, both based in Tampa, partnered on one of the first behavioral health teaching hospitals in Florida.

Salem-based Oregon State Hospital again has been cited with immediate jeopardy, this time over disorganized medical supplies that could delay lifesaving treatment for a patient in an emergency, The Lund Report reported April 29.

The FDA cleared the first prescription digital therapeutic app for major depressive disorder.

Riviera Beach, Fla.-based West Palm Beach VA Medical Center is facing scrutiny after one of its patients confessed to strangling his roommate, Stripes and Stars reported March 26.

A nurse, patient and two psychiatric assistants are facing criminal charges in the 2022 death of a patient, The Columbus Dispatch reported March 1.

About one-fifth of people who attempt suicide don't meet the criteria for a psychiatric disorder, a recent study found.