Kathy Greene, a licensed clinical social worker, was named the inaugural chief operations officer at Bayville, N.J.-based behavioral health treatment provider Bright Harbor Healthcare.
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Members of the American Hospital Association sent a letter to Congress on Dec. 1 that outlined its eight priorities to improve behavioral healthcare in the U.S. for patients and providers.
National adolescent mental health treatment provider Newport Healthcare acquired Brooklyn Park, Minn.-based PrairieCare, a mental health service provider with nine practices.
The national 988 suicide and crisis lifeline is back up and running after a widespread outage at Intrado, the telecommunications company that runs the hotline, according to a Dec. 2 report from ABC News.
Bend, Ore.-based Mosaic Medical has been gifted $50,000 from the Oregon Community Foundation to create a new school-based health center at Mountain View High School, also in Bend, KTVZ reported Nov. 30.
Tampa Bay (Fla.) Lightning forward Pat Maroon made a $2,000 donation to Tampa Bay Thrives, a mental wellness organization, on behalf of NESN's Jack Edwards in response to the announcer's comments on his weight, CBS Boston reported Nov. 30.
Here are 14 newly opened or announced mental health facilities reported on by Becker's since Nov. 10:
Acadia Healthcare and Indiana-based acute behavioral health provider Lutheran Health Network opened a new mental health facility in Fort Wayne, Ind.
Bozeman, Mont.-based Charlie Health, the largest provider for virtual intensive outpatient mental health programming, is expanding its services to children and their families in Colorado.
Vermont has the most accessible mental healthcare services, according to a report by Mental Health America.