A proposal to combat the behavioral health crisis exacerbated by the pandemic was announced by CMS this year.
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After an eight-year stretch that saw New York close 32 percent of its youth capacity in state psychiatric hospitals, children across the state are finding themselves with nowhere to go for mental health treatment.
John Constantino, MD, is stepping into the newly-minted role of behavioral and mental health chief at the Children's Hospital of Atlanta, effective August 1, according to a news release shared with Becker's.
University of California San Francisco has opened the Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building, a "one-of-a-kind" treatment center designed to reinvent mental health services and tackle the stigma around psychiatric treatment, local news source KRON 4 reported June 27.
National behavioral health service provider Acadia Healthcare and Massachusetts-based Tufts Medicine formed a joint venture to build what Acadia CEO calls a "critically needed" behavioral health hospital in the Boston area.
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One year after the inauguration of the Link in Sioux Falls, S.D., in June 2021, the mental health and addiction treatment facility had 4,001 triage visits and served more than 1,400 patients, local news source the Argus Leader reported June…
Rates of suicide among adults in the U.S. decreased after the 2014 Medicaid expansion, a study published June 27 in JAMA Network Open found.
Mark Agresti, MD, was sentenced to 100 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release for his role in a four year, $106 million false claims scheme, the Labor Department said June 27.
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which increased funding for mental health programs and aims to reduce the threat and incidence of violence in America, was passed by the Senate June 23. Here's a quick overview of the legislation:
South Bend, Ind.-based NeuroPsychiatric Hospitals recently broke ground on a 64-bed psychiatric hospital in Texas County, Mich., local news source MLive reported June 27.