Behavioral Health News

Springfield, Mass.-based bilingual behavioral health organization Gándara Center opened a behavioral health urgent care, MassLive reported May 24.

Colorado state legislators passed an almost $500 million package of mostly bipartisan mental health bills, Colorado Public Radio reported May 26.

Sharita Richardson, former COO of Raleigh, N.C.-based behavioral health company Group Service, was sentenced to 22 months in prison and three years of supervised release in a $4 million Medicaid fraud case, the Justice Department said May 25.

The Oregon Health Authority plans to devote $517 million in investments to improve state mental health services, local news source The Chronicle reported May 26.

Following an investigation sparked by a 2018 patient death, John Mitchell, MD, a psychiatrist from Lehigh Valley, Pa., was arrested May 23 and charged with 13 counts, including illegally administering, dispensing or prescribing schedule II controlled substances, local news source…

Attorneys for the state of West Virginia have reached a tentative $161.5 million settlement with drugmakers Teva Pharmaceuticals and AbbVie in a trial over the opioid epidemic, ABC News reported May 25.

The Nogales (Ariz.) Police Department, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department, eight Nogales police officers and one county sheriff's deputy were all sued over the death of truck driver Glen Cockrum, CBS affiliate KOLD reported May 25.

Green Bay, Wis.-based N.E.W. Community Clinic's new facility is nearly complete, Fox11 reported May 25.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Odyssey Behavioral Healthcare opened a new Pasadena Villa Outpatient facility in Glen Allen, Va.

Though the U.S. Hispanic population is growing, providers of Spanish-speaking mental health services are diminishing, a study published in Psychiatric Services May 3 found.