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Marietta, Ohio-based Life & Purpose Behavioral Health will join Athens, Ohio-based Hopewell Health Centers, the Marietta Times reported March 2. 

Oregon is the lowest-ranked state for children's mental healthcare, while Delaware and Washington, D.C., are at the top, according to a Mental Health America report.

WebMD has partnered with Therapy Brands, a healthcare IT partner for mental, behavioral and rehabilitative therapy.

Roxbury, Mass.-based Whittier Street Health Center has now added behavioral health and substance abuse screenings to its Mobile Unit outreach program. 

Here are 17 newly announced or opened behavioral health treatment centers covered by Becker's in February: 

The Hawaii Senate Committee on Ways and Means unanimously passed four bills on behavioral health, State of Reform reported March 1. 

Headway, a mental health startup based in New York City, is expected to be valued at more than $1 billion after a new funding round, Bloomberg reported Feb. 27.

Here are the 10 most-read behavioral health updates reported by Becker's in February:

State legislators in Oregon have introduced a bill that aims to include residents with "lived mental health experience" in the decision-making process for establishing behavioral health services in the state, according to a Feb. 27 report from the Willamette Week.

Virtual mental healthcare provider Brightline is now in network with Cigna and Evernorth Health Services, the payer's pharmacy, care and benefits division.