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50 peer academy grads to expand behavioral health support in NYC
NYC Health + Hospitals' Peer Academy graduated 50 additional individuals with lived mental health or substance use experience who are now trained to become certified peer counselors. -
Methodist, Acadia to open new behavioral health hospital in Iowa
Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital and Acadia Healthcare have partnered to build a behavioral health hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa, investing more than $55 million to alleviate unmet behavioral health needs in the region. -
Cherokee Nation launches behavioral health scholarship
Cherokee Nation has developed a behavioral health scholarship to support students living inside and outside the reservation as they enter the behavioral health field, the the Tahlequah Daily Press reported July 22. -
Autism centers fleeing Colorado
At least nine facilities providing therapy for children with autism in Colorado have closed in the past year and a half, The Colorado Sun reported July 24. -
CMS approves mobile crisis intervention teams in California and Kentucky
CMS approved California and Kentucky proposals to establish community-based mobile crisis intervention teams, according to a June 20 news release shared with Becker's. -
Texas university receives $10M to bolster behavioral health workforce
Odessa-based University of Texas Permian Basin has received $10 million in grants from the Permian Strategic Partnership and the Scharbauer Foundation to support the mental and behavioral health workforce. -
Kentucky's only all-girl juvenile detention center closed: Senator, law enforcement demand reopening
Kentucky State Senator John Schickel joined multiple sheriffs and police chiefs in speaking at a press conference demanding the reopening of the state's only all-girl detention facility, NPR affiliate WVXU News reported July 18. -
Tropical Texas Behavioral Health receives $3M to launch mental health crisis response unit
Tropical Texas Behavioral Health, in partnership with the Edinburg (Texas) Police Department, has received $3 million to launch a mental health crisis response unit, myRGV reported July 18. -
San Diego County designates $44.3M to behavioral health housing for homeless residents
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has approved designating $44.3 million in California's Behavioral Health Bridge Housing Program funds to develop housing for homeless residents who have serious behavioral health conditions, County News Center reported July 18. -
UHS adds Oracle Cerner EHR to 200 behavioral health facilities
United Health Services has expanded Oracle Health's electronic health record system across its network of behavioral health facilities. -
Mental health facility owner pleads guilty to $3.3M fraud
Mboutchock Kabiwa has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud for paying bribes and kickbacks to Medicaid beneficiaries to get them to visit her mental health clinic. -
$7.5M children's behavioral health center opens in Ohio
Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital opened an outpatient behavioral health center on July 18 offering therapy and coping skill education to patients ages 12 to 18, cleveland.com reported July 17. -
Montana forms behavioral health commission
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte named his appointees to the Behavioral Health System for Future Generations commission. -
University of Nebraska Omaha receives $1M to address behavioral health provider shortage
The University of Nebraska Omaha has received two grants totaling $1 million to support its clinical mental health counseling program. -
Merit Health closes Mississippi county's only mental health unit
Merit Health has closed the only behavioral health unit in Mississippi's Warren County, The Vicksburg Post reported July 14. -
Behavioral health center opens in Pennsylvania
Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger has opened a behavioral health center in Moosic, Pa., according to a July 17 report from ABC affiliate WNEP. -
988 crisis line received 5M texts, calls and chats in 1st year
National crisis line 988 has answered five million calls, chats and texts in its first year of operation since transitioning from its 10-digit number, NPR reported July 15. -
Urgent behavioral health crisis center opens in Missouri
Kennett, Mo.-based FCC Behavioral Health has opened an urgent behavioral health crisis center in Poplar Bluff, the Southeast Missourian reported July 17. -
Pennsylvania behavioral health hospital to reopen
Kingston, Pa.-based Commonwealth Health First Hospital will reopen under new ownership as Wyoming Valley Behavioral Health Hospital, according to an ABC affiliate WNEP. -
$207M in grants, funding for behavioral health projects in 3 weeks
Here are eight behavioral health grant, gift and funding stories Becker's has covered since June 27:
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