Author: Staff

Behavioral health and addiction issues ranked as the No. 3 concern among hospital CEOs heading into 2023, according to an American College of Healthcare Executives report.

In the U.S., 21 percent of adults, or 52.9 million people, experienced mental illness in 2020, and the number of suicide deaths increased among all races and ethnicities from 2020 to 2021, according to the most recent data from the CDC.

Financial services startup Prosperity Behavioral Health acquired revenue-cycle management company Elevated Billing, according to a news release.

Concord Technologies has launched Concord Care Intake, an application seeking to improve the critical intake process for behavioral health providers.

Mark Palmenter has been named chief marketing officer of Acadia Healthcare, one of the largest networks of behavioral health facilities in the U.S.

UnitedHealth Group formed a $3.2 million grant partnership with East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., to expand the school's telepsychiatry program.

The number of suicide deaths in the U.S. went from 45,979 in 2020 to 48,183 in 2021, an increase of 4.8 percent, according to the most recent data released by the CDC.

Local divisions of Aetna Better Health and Community Care invested a total of $1.2 million to develop a new mental health counseling graduate program at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon.

PESI, an education nonprofit group based in Eau Claire, Wis., donated $1.25 million to the University of Cincinnati medical school to support research on therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Pennsylvania-based health systems Lehigh Valley Health Network and Universal Health Services have partnered to build a behavioral health hospital in the state's Hanover Township.