Behavioral Health News

Norman (Okla.) Regional Health System has partnered with Plano, Texas-based Oceans Healthcare, a behavioral health provider system, to construct a new behavioral health center, The Norman Transcript reported March 25. 

Becker's Healthcare named 150 companies to its 2023 list of the top places to work in healthcare, and the following nine have placed particular emphasis on their employees' mental health.

The most stressed states in America skew southern, while the opposite is true of the least stressed states, according to a WalletHub analysis.

UTHealth Houston has been approved by the UTHealth system and the state of Texas to open a new school to train behavioral healthcare workers. 

Bend Health's virtual pediatric mental health services are now available to more than 170 million people through new partnerships with leading insurers including UnitedHealthcare and Magellan, as well as with employers and health systems.

Psychiatrists were the second most recruited specialty in 2022, according to a new report from Doximity. Child and adolescent psychiatrists also ranked in the top half of the list. 

Demand for behavioral health care has dramatically increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Trilliant Health report.

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health is expanding access to behavioral health crisis services in two of the state's counties in April.

Montana was named the best state for physicians to practice in 2023, according to financial website WalletHub's annual list. 

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 issues like workforce shortages aren't addressed.