Mayor Francis Suarez, U.S. Conference of Mayors president, announced a new official Task Force on Mental Health and Wellbeing at the 90th Annual Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors on June 3.
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Asheville, N.C.-based Mountain Area Health Education Center was awarded a $4 million grant from the state's Department of Health and Human Services, ABC affiliate WLOS reported June 1.
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Odyssey Behavioral Healthcareis opening an outpatient eating disorder clinic in Columbus, Ohio.
A 16-year-old resident at Owens Cross Roads, Ala.-based for-profit youth psychiatric treatment facility Sequel TSI suffered abuse so severe she called the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program and 911, al.com reported June 1.
Former BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee executive Clay Phillips was named senior vice president of strategy and managed care of Summit BHC, a behavioral health and addiction treatment center in Franklin, Tenn., local news source Brentwood Homepage reported June 2.
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Behavioral health case management company Healthkeeperz is paying $2.1 million to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act by billing claims to Medicaid that were not reimbursable, the Justice Department said June 1.
Colorado law enforcement announced they have seized more illicit fentanyl, the synthetic opioid driving overdose deaths in the U.S., in the first five months of 2022 than they did in all of 2021.
The use of antidepressants over time does not continue to improve patients' health-related quality of life, research published on April 20 in the journal PLOS One suggests.
Among healthcare facilities that used locum tenens providers in the last 12 months, behavioral health specialists were the third-most utilized type, according to AMN Healthcare's "2022 Survey of Locum Tenens Staffing Trends."
Using data published in JAMA Internal Medicine, these are the most commonly prescribed psychiatric medications in the U.S., according to the most recent surveys from 2013.