Author: Staff

President Joe Biden has included $10.8 billion in his 2024 budget for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. 

UnitedHealthcare members are requesting a federal appeals court to reconsider a ruling that would limit the insurer's obligation to cover mental health treatments, according to a March 13 report from Bloomberg. 

Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare and Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger named Kelly Ankenbrand CEO of a new 96-bed joint venture behavioral health hospital.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha has enrolled the first patient in a clinical trial in partnership with ANANDA Scientific for an investigational drug to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

Nonprofit safety organization ECRI has listed pediatric mental health the top patient safety threat in 2023.

Mental health issues have been a taboo topic in the U.S. for generations, but that has started to change.

Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network will soon open a 13-bed, $6.4 million behavioral health unit renovation at its Quakertown campus, The Philadelphia Business Journal reported March 13.

Six new behavioral health centers that were announced or covered in the first two weeks of March:

North Carolina is tackling the mental health crisis from many angles, having proposed a $1 billion behavioral health budget, developed care platforms, and now, opening a new youth psychiatric hospital in Butner. 

Researchers have found that a person who has recently been released from prison is 10 times more at risk of a drug overdose in Oregon, the Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment reported Feb. 21.