Behavioral Health News

Yakima, Wash.-based Comprehensive Healthcare plans to open a new behavioral health facility at Camp Hope, an emergency homeless shelter also in Yakima. 

Trinity Health is closing the adult inpatient behavioral health unit at its hospital in Chelsea, Mich., ABC affiliate WXYZ reported April 28. 

Ananthakumar Thillainathan, MD, 45,  was sentenced to four years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for behavioral health fraud and kickbacks, the Justice Department said April 27.

Ysurf Shariff, RN, was charged with six counts related to allegations he sexually assaulted teen patients at Green Bay (Wis.) Willow Creek Behavioral Health, WBAY reported April 26.

Ishpeming, Mich.-based Great Lakes Recovery Centers is setting up to expand for a new campus, WJMN reported April 27. 

Acadia Healthcare, a behavioral healthcare provider, has released its first quarter financial results. 

Donald Miskowiec, recently retired CEO of LaSalle, Ill.-based North Central Behavioral Health Systems and current executive director of the LaSalle County 708 Community Mental Health Board, sat down with Becker's to share projects he is excited about, his top priorities…

Behavioral health is projected to be one of the fastest-growing areas in healthcare, by market value, over the next few years. Those projections may fall short, however, if provider shortages and other key obstacles aren't addressed.

David Jankowski, DO, was sentenced to a statutory maximum of 20 years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $40 million for running two pill mills in Michigan, the Justice Department said April 26.

Psychiatrists make an average of $247,350 annually in the U.S., according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational employment statistics survey.