Kansas' American Civil Liberties Union and the National Police Accountability Project are suing Kansas for alleged "unconstitutional, unlawful and health-deteriorating wait times" at the understaffed Larned State Hospital, the Kansas Reflector reported May 26.
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Using data compiled by World Population Review, these are the countries with the highest rates of depression among their population, along with the approximate number of people with the condition.
Springfield, Mass.-based bilingual behavioral health organization Gándara Center opened a behavioral health urgent care, MassLive reported May 24.
Colorado state legislators passed an almost $500 million package of mostly bipartisan mental health bills, Colorado Public Radio reported May 26.
Sharita Richardson, former COO of Raleigh, N.C.-based behavioral health company Group Service, was sentenced to 22 months in prison and three years of supervised release in a $4 million Medicaid fraud case, the Justice Department said May 25.
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Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Healthcare Foundation received a $2 million donation to support geriatric services at the Cornell Family Behavioral Health Pavilion on the hospital's Sarasota campus, Sarasota magazine SRQ reported May 25.
The Oregon Health Authority plans to devote $517 million in investments to improve state mental health services, local news source The Chronicle reported May 26.
Following an investigation sparked by a 2018 patient death, John Mitchell, MD, a psychiatrist from Lehigh Valley, Pa., was arrested May 23 and charged with 13 counts, including illegally administering, dispensing or prescribing schedule II controlled substances, local news source…
Attorneys for the state of West Virginia have reached a tentative $161.5 million settlement with drugmakers Teva Pharmaceuticals and AbbVie in a trial over the opioid epidemic, ABC News reported May 25.
The Nogales (Ariz.) Police Department, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department, eight Nogales police officers and one county sheriff's deputy were all sued over the death of truck driver Glen Cockrum, CBS affiliate KOLD reported May 25.