Behavioral Health News

A former grocery store transformed into a mental health and substance use urgent care center is set to open in Watertown, N.Y., CBS affiliate WWNY reported April 19. 

Older Americans tend to be happier and more content than their younger peers, according to an AARP study published June 2022, but aging brings its own unique challenges.

Meadows Behavioral Healthcare is opening a residential mental health treatment facility for adolescents in Morristown, Ariz.

Universal Health Services added 391 beds to new and existing behavioral health facilities in 2022, according to the UHS annual report.

CVS Health now offers mental health counseling and care services at six of its locations in the Los Angeles area and debuted virtual care services to all California residents. 

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention launched a virtual, anonymous screening program to assess healthcare workers who may be at risk of suicide and connect them to professional mental health support.

Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, is seeking to improve access and cost of care for those seeking behavioral health services in multiple ways. 

Páll Matthíasson, MD, PhD, leader of Iceland's mental health strategy and a psychiatrist at The National University Hospital of Iceland in Reykjavík, joined Becker's to share his behavioral health priorities, forecasts for the industry of mental healthcare worldwide and more. 

Behavioral health is seeing a mixture of headwinds and tailwinds, with both leaders and the public increasingly seeing it as vital, while structural issues like payment and reimbursement parity, and provider deficits, present as major obstacles.

K-Assist, a Hamden, Conn.-based behavioral health provider, is required to pay over $243,000 to resolve allegations that it violated federal and state False Claims Acts, the Justice Department reported April 18.