Author: Mariah Taylor

Council Bluffs, Iowa-based Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital and Acadia Healthcare broke ground on a behavioral health hospital.

Lancaster, Pa.-based Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development, the only outpatient pediatric therapy clinic in the area, will suspend its behavioral health services Aug. 31 due to a lack of providers, Central Penn Business Journal reported Aug. 26.

Salem-based Oregon State Hospital has received a statement of deficiencies from CMS highlighting concerns related to a patient death in May, the Statesman Journal reported Aug. 27.

ARC Health, a provider of mental and behavioral health services, has expanded services for patients and providers.

Tucson, Ariz.-based Sonora Behavioral Health Hospital is expanding its facility and adding 48 beds, Arizona Luminaria reported Aug. 21.

Health systems are turning to a new type of care facility to address increasing demands for mental health care — behavioral health urgent cares.

Becker's compiled a list of the psychiatric facilities with the highest and lowest readmission rates after an inpatient psychiatric stay using CMS's Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Measure Data-by Facility.

St. Louis-based SSM Health is opening the first behavioral health urgent care clinic in the city, NPR affiliate St. Louis Public Radio reported Aug. 19.

Pueblo, Colo., is the top-paying metropolitan area in the U.S. for mental, behavioral health and substance use counselors, according to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Grand Junction, Colo.-based Mind Springs Health's psychiatric hospital is reopening its youth ward after being closed for little over a month, The Daily Sentinel reported Aug. 14.