Author: Rylee Wilson

St. Paul, Minn.-based Partners Behavioral Healthcare has acquired four locations from Minneapolis-based Nuway, The Post Bulletin reported March 12.  Parenters Behavioral took over operations of Nuway’s intensive outpatient treatment centers in Rochester, Duluth, Mankato and St. Cloud, Minn., on March…

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration could be facing deep cuts as part of a broader effort to scale back the size of the federal government, The New York Times reported March 12.  Senior officials at the agency…

Westborough (Mass.) Behavioral Healthcare Hospital will open a second special needs inpatient unit for children with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disabilities.  The unit provides children ages 5-17 with autism and co-occurring behavioral health conditions treatment in sensory-friendly spaces with…

Zobeida Diaz, MD, has been named division director of women’s behavioral health at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I.  Dr. Diaz has played a key role in Women & Infants’ mother-baby partial hospitalization program, and the hospitals’ peripartum psychiatric…

Providers have recently opened new inpatient, outpatient and urgent care behavioral health facilities.  Here are 10 new sites that have opened since Feb. 12: 

Workforce is the defining challenge facing behavioral health in 2025, according to Veronica Hughes, RN, vice president of behavioral health nursing strategy and quality at Advocate Health.   Advocate Health was created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium…

Boston-based The Stepping Stones Group has acquired Fullerton, Calif.-based Gallagher Pediatric Services.  According to a news release from Hexagon Capital Alliance published in February, Gallagher Pediatric Services provides physical and occupational therapy in most Southern California school districts.  The Stepping…

Providence, R.I.-based Bradley Hospital is able to treat children in five states through its virtual partial hospitalization program. 

West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Coral Behavioral Services has filed for bankruptcy, the South Florida Business Journal reported March 3. 

LifeStance Health is taking a "disciplined" approach to mergers and acquisitions, according to outgoing CEO Ken Burdick.