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.
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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.
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.
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.