Lancaster (Pa.) General Health, part of Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, is giving workers four percent pay increases about two weeks after it laid off numerous behavioral health staff, LancasterOnline reported April 12.
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Ketamine therapy provider Kure has opened its first clinic in Santa Monica, Calif.
The cost to attend the top-ranked school for psychiatry is 66.8 percent more than that the average cost of attending a private university in the U.S. in 2022, according to U.S. News and World Report's "Best Medical Schools" list for…
The demand for behavioral health services in the U.S. far outstrips its supply of behavioral health workers and clinicians, and even the nation's best hospitals suffer the effects.
Two mental health counselors and one social worker in Iowa are facing sanctions to their licenses related to sexual misconduct allegations, Iowa Capital Dispatch reported April 10.
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There are 841,322 actively practicing physicians in total, and 537,351 — or 63.9 percent — indicated they identify as white, according to the Association of American Medical College's "2022 Physician Specialty Data Report."
A mental health unit to treat and house inmates with serious mental illnesses is set to open at Ventura County's Todd Road Jail in Santa Paula, Calif., the Ventura County Star reported April 9.
Threshold Rehabilitation Services opened a new residential mental health facility in Wernersville, Pa.
A total of 2,143 medical school graduates matched into psychiatry residency programs in 2023 — up from 2,030 in 2022, according to data from the National Resident Matching Program.
The privatization of the mental health workforce will have the most significant effect on marginalized communities, according to a recent report from Cornell University.