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Michele Broadnax has been appointed to the board of directors of the National Alliance on Mental Illness' Greater Los Angeles County chapter. 

Kimiko Boyd has been named chief operations officer of Concert Health, a national mental health medical group.

Katie McLaughlin, PhD, has been appointed as the first executive director of the new Ballmer Institute for Children's Behavioral Health at the University of Oregon in Portland, according to a Jan. 31 report from Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Ieso Digital Health, a U.K.-based healthcare technology company developing artificial intelligence-guided mental health treatments, named David Icke the executive chair of its board of directors. 

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Children's Hospital Los Angeles has received a five-year $2.5 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration as part of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health has added 22 beds to its WellSpan Philhaven facility in Mt. Gretna, Pa., through a $7 million expansion, Lebanon Daily News reported Jan. 30. 

Alto Neuroscience, a psychiatric medication development company, secured $60 million in series B funding and entered a $35 million credit facility with K2 HealthVentures.

Tia Dole, PhD, a clinical psychologist, has been appointed chief officer of the National 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

Acadia Healthcare has named Navdeep Kang, PsyD, Chief Quality Officer of its inpatient services division, according to a Jan. 27 post on LinkedIn by the Franklin, Tenn.-based health system.