Behavioral Health News

Phoenix-based behavioral healthcare provider Connections Health Solutions is opening a mental health crisis care center in Kirkland, Wash.

Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare began construction on a new behavioral health hospital in Mesa, Ariz. 

Two pain clinic owners, a Tennessee physician and his wife, were each sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $50 million apiece in restitution for defrauding insurers, providing unnecessary services and illegally distributing opioids, the…

Psychiatrist Brian Hyatt, MD, chair of the Arkansas State Medical Board, resigned after the state's Medicaid inspector general found "credible allegations of fraud," the Arkansas Democrat Gazette  reported March 3. 

Frank Fortunati, MD, vice chief and medical director of psychiatry and behavioral health at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital since 2016, died March 5 at 58 after a battle with cancer.

Demand for behavioral health care has dramatically increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth is constructing a new inpatient unit at its Aurora campus, NBC affiliate KOAA reported March 6. 

Behavioral health is primed to be the biggest area for growth in healthcare over the next decade, and hospital executives are adjusting their strategies accordingly, with 80 percent saying they plan to hire more behavioral health providers in 2023.

Former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith, Durham, N.C.-based Alliance Health, and the county of Mecklenburg have teamed up to open a new behavioral health urgent care center in Charlotte, N.C., WFAE reported March 2. 

Liberty Township (Ohio) police arrested six adolescents after a riot at behavioral health hospital Belmont Pines, according to a report from CBS affiliate WKBN.