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The Texas Senate has passed a bill that would allocate $115 million to expand the El Paso (Texas) Psychiatric Center State Hospital System, ABC affiliate KVIA reported April 17. 

Washington, D.C.-based Unity Health Care has been awarded $2.3 million to establish the J. Willard and Alice S. Foundation Behavioral Health Development Fund to support its mental health fellowship program. 

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the state's Department of Technology, Management and Budget are teaming up to build a new inpatient psychiatric hospital.

Orlando, Fla., psychiatrist Iftikhar Rasul, MD, founder and medical director of Serene Behavioral Health, was restricted from seeing female patients six months after being arrested for allegedly touching a patient inappropriately, the third such allegation against him, the Miami Herald…

Morgan Medlock, MD, Colorado's inaugural chief of the state's behavioral health administration, has left the position after serving just 15 months, according to an April 17 report from the Colorado Sun.

Behavioral health is undergoing a broad awakening, with both leaders and the public increasingly seeing it as vital. The industry may fail to capture the full momentum of those tailwinds, however, if certain obstacles are not addressed.

CMS released its 2024 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters Final Rule, which includes measures aimed at boosting behavioral healthcare access, increasing coverage accessibility and simplifying the health plan selection process, according to an April 17 news release shared with…

The rate of suicide declined in 2019 and 2020 but increased by 4 percent in 2021, according to an April report from the CDC. 

St. Louis-based Ascension named Greg Sizemore CEO of its Nashville, Tenn.-based Saint Thomas Behavioral Health Hospital, the Nashville Business Journal reported April 16.

Franklin, Tenn.-based mental health treatment provider Summit BHC named Paul Gilbert its chief legal officer.