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Green Bay, Wis.-based N.E.W. Community Clinic's new facility is nearly complete, Fox11 reported May 25.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Odyssey Behavioral Healthcare opened a new Pasadena Villa Outpatient facility in Glen Allen, Va.

Though the U.S. Hispanic population is growing, providers of Spanish-speaking mental health services are diminishing, a study published in Psychiatric Services May 3 found.

Grand Rapids, Mich., leaders unanimously approved a $700,000 co-response team with police and mental health workers for specific emergency calls, local news source MLive reported May 26.

United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, issued an official advisory May 23 stressing the immediate need to combat the health worker burnout crisis in the U.S. 

John Littel, Virginia secretary of health and human resources, told the state General Assembly's Joint Commission on Health Care that mental health facility workers are leaving their positions for those at fast food restaurants such as Chick-fil-A, Virginia Mercury reported…

Researchers at the University of Indiana School of Medicine in Indianapolis have created a blood test capable of identifying depression and bipolar disorder in patients after 15 years of research and study, local news source WTHR reported May 24.

California's State Assembly passed a bill that allows parents to sue social media platforms for harming children who have become addicted to their platforms for up to $25,000 per violation, ABC News reported May 23.

Jayesh Kamath, MD, PhD, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut in Mansfield, said that use of ketamine as a treatment for mental health is "revolutionary for [the field of psychiatry]," CT Insider reported May 22.

Online mental healthcare company Talkspace released its "Employee Stress Check Report 2022," which showed that 34 percent of 1,400 American full-time workers are currently considering quitting their job, but 66 percent of those considering quitting said access to mental health…