Investment & Transactions

Somerville, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, part of West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health, opened a revamped outpatient behavioral health center with more rooms and expanded services.

As it becomes increasingly popular for patients to access therapy from the convenience of their own homes, many digital behavioral health companies are completing significant financing rounds.

Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health has teamed up with Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center in Iola to expand primary care and mental health services, Fort Scott Biz reported May 6. 

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Wolfson Children's Hospital has received $3 million from the Players Championship Village toward its new $9.5 million inpatient behavioral health unit, the Florida Times-Union reported May 3. 

Uwill, a teletherapy platform for college students, raised $30 million in series A financing.

The University of South Florida in Tampa has received $8 million from the U.S. Department of Education to improve school-based mental health programs. 

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has unveiled a $500 million mental health initiative as part of his biennial budget set to unfold over the next two years, declaring 2023 the "Year of Mental Health," WisPolitics reported May 1. 

Wisconsin-based retailer Kohl's has donated $3 million to Children's Wisconsin in Milwaukee to open three mental health walk-in clinics across the state, according to a May 1 report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network is asking the state of Michigan for $227 million to expand its crisis care and residential mental healthcare, the Detroit Free Press reported April 27.

St. Louis-based SSM Health opened a children's behavioral hospital in Edwardsville, Ill., Fox2 Now reported April 27.