New York City's newest mental health initiative has sparked backlash from social workers based on its plans to involuntarily hospitalize people with mental health issues who pose a threat to themselves or others.
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Dallas-based Texas Children's Hospital, the nation's largest pediatric hospital, used $11 million to form a behavioral health task force and integrate mental healthcare into its services.
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.
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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.