Mental Health

The National Collegiate Athletic Association published an open letter to student-athletes on mental health.

In the face of a shortage of mental healthcare providers, experts predict that the increase in physician assistants and nurse practitioners providing mental health support is here to stay. 

Virtual telepsychiatry provider Talkspace launched a platform to simplify the process of connecting employees to available mental health resources.

Kansas is the lowest-ranked state for mental healthcare, while Wisconsin is at the top, according to a Mental Health America report.

Digital startups are making waves in behavioral health, despite a 53 percent decrease in mental health tech companies from 2021 to 2022.

Sen. John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, checked himself in at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, The New York Times reported Feb. 16.

The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants has established a behavioral health program for new resettled Afghans in the United States.

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.

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.

A partnership between Los Angeles County, L.A. Care Health Plan and Centene's Health Net will soon offer free mental telehealth services to 1.3 million public school students.