Behavioral Health News

NYC Health + Hospitals' Behavioral Health Loan Repayment Program allocates $1 million in aid to help behavioral health professionals with student debt.

Nearly one-third of healthcare workers surveyed in France meet the diagnostic criteria for clinical depression, according to results published this month in the International Journal of Nursing Studies. 

The National Alliance on Mental Illness released its first podcast, "Hope Starts with Us" July 27.

California state Sen. Anthony Portantino received the 2022 Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Award from the Urban Los Angeles National Alliance on Mental Illness in recognition of his influence on mental health policy in the state.

Four behavioral health physicians and leaders who have stepped into new roles since June 1: 

On July 26, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass,  and California Democrat Reps. Tony Cárdenas and Katie Porter reintroduced an updated Behavioral Health Coverage Transparency Act, first introduced by Ms. Warren in 2018.

Opioid addiction treatment provider Bicycle Health is partnering with clinical care and healthcare navigation platform Included Health to increase access to opioid use disorder treatment, Bicycle Health said July 26.

CVS Health has named Taft Parsons, III, MD, a vice president and the company's chief psychiatric officer, the company said in an email shared with Becker's.

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services reported higher revenue but a lower profit in the second quarter of 2022, the company said July 25. 

The co-owners of an addiction treatment center in Florida have both pleaded guilty to charges linking them to three patient overdose deaths, local news source the Palm Beach Post reported July 23.