Rhode Island is using its fiscal year 2023 budget to improve the state's mental healthcare system, according to Richard Charest, director of the state's Department of Behavioral Healthcare and Developmental Disabilities & Hospitals.
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The Senate Finance Committee's legislation to improve mental healthcare in the U.S. plans to increase access to Medicare funding for therapy and more, according to a draft of the legislation released by the Senate Sept. 22.
As the stigma against sharing personal mental health challenges lessens, more steps are being taken to make suicide prevention a national priority, according to Mark Friedlander, MD, chief medical officer of Universal Health Services' behavioral health division.
Workplace violence is a widely-discussed trend in healthcare today, and addressing it could involve adding a metric to patient medical records.
The importance of mental wellbeing is more widely recognized today than in years past.
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From industry updates to acquisitions and mergers, here are developments that affected the behavioral health industry in 2022, according to a report by healthcare strategy and transaction advisory firm VGM Health.
From average income to hours worked, here is an overview of the psychiatric physician assistant industry, published by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies.
From wearable health monitoring tools to emerging treatment methods, five behavioral health leaders joined Becker's to discuss the behavioral healthcare trends and developments they are most excited about.
Securian Financial donated $1 million to Children's Minnesota to fund the hospital's first inpatient mental health unit.
Only 6 percent of adults who experienced a major depressive episode in the last year are receiving treatment, an analysis published Sept. 19 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found.