Former Facebook project manager Frances Haugen, who released internal Facebook documents last year, argued that technological fixes should be implemented to make social media platforms safer for children in a piece for California nonprofit newsroom CalMatters published June 27.
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Vermont created the Child Psychiatry Access Program to ease the burden on primary care providers struggling with a psychiatric care waitlist "hundreds of kids deep" as a result of the pandemic, local news source WCAX reported June 27.
Riverside University Health System in Moreno Valley, Calif., was awarded $76 million to build a mental health campus in Coachella, Calif., NBC Palm Springs reported June 23.
Sheridan (Wyo.) Memorial Hospital is fighting for a portion of the $85 million American Rescue Plan Act funding dedicated to state healthcare services upgrades, with an endgame of creating a new mental health facility and transport dedicated to psychiatric patients,…
Psychiatrist duo Stephanie Collier, MD, MPH, and Daniel Carlat, MD are teaming up to produce The Carlat Geriatric Psychiatry Report, a newsletter covering geriatric psychiatry with a focus on issues including dementia, anxiety and depression.
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Healthcare providers are not immune to the growing mental health crisis, and that's why New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has overhauled its credentialing process.
Maine is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by unnecessarily institutionalizing children with mental health and developmental disabilities, the Justice Department said June 22.
The American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting on June 20 provided updates on the latest research, opinions and industry practices for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, the Psychiatric Times reported on June 21.
Minneapolis-based Children's Minnesota is opening its first inpatient mental health unit later this year, Minneapolis/St.Paul Business Journal reported June 21.
In Texas, there are 400 inmates at the Dallas County jail awaiting transfer to a state mental health facility, costing the county $13 million to fund their prison stays, Fox 4 News reported June 20.