Behavioral Health News

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Soul Surgery, an integrative medicine addiction and mental health center, has hired 15 employees to its team in the past two months. 

Los Alamitos, Calif.-based Discovery Behavioral Health appointed Joseph Garbely, DO, the medical director of its Brookdale Premier Addiction Recovery treatment center in Scotrun, Pa.

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Cherry Health, in partnership with addiction and sexual health services provider the Grand Rapids Red Project, will install Narcan vending machines at two locations to help prevent opioid overdose, MLive reported Dec. 6. 

Xenia, Ohio-based TCN Behavioral Health Services has been granted a land-use change in Fairborn, Ohio, to construct a 40-unit apartment building, Dayton Daily News reported Dec. 5. 

Mental health issues among students nationwide are surging, The Washington Post reported Dec. 5. 

Aware Recovery Care, an at-home mental health treatment company based in Wallington, Conn., named Martha Mather its COO and expanded to Kentucky.

Ground has been broken on a new $200 million state psychiatric hospital in Dallas, Fox affiliate KDFW reported Dec. 5.

Health coverage provider Centene and Austin, Texas-based Superior HealthPlan invested $7.9 million to build a community center in Uvalde, Texas, that will provide primary care, behavioral health and other specialty care services.

Texas has the least accessible mental healthcare services, according to a report by Mental Health America.

Here are six acquisitions, expansions and mergers among mental health companies reported on by Becker's since Nov. 28: