Pearl Youth Residence, a 27-bed facility treating children ages 12-17 with serious mental illness in Tacoma, Wash., is set to close in November, eliminating a quarter of the state’s long-term youth psychiatric beds, The Seattle Times reported Sept. 24. The…
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John Gaitanis, MD, the new chair of the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, co-founded a telehealth company that provides leucovorin to families of children with autism, MedPage Today reported Sept. 23. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named Dr. Gaitanis…
Loma Linda (Calif.) University Health held a Sept. 15 ribbon-cutting for its Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment, and Healing (EmPATH) Unit. Located in the Hinshaw Towers, the unit has 24 treatment spaces divided evenly between pediatric and adult patients. The space…
Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine has received $175,000 in philanthropic gifts to launch a new initiative to train clinicians in evidence-based youth mental health treatments. The effort is supported by a $100,000 gift from the Annapurna Foundation, along with an additional…
UNC Health Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville, N.C., opened an adolescent behavioral health center Sept. 9 to address the “missing middle” in mental healthcare, according to a behavioral health leader at Pardee Hospital. The 23-bed center sits inside Pardee Hospital and…
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U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., introduced the bipartisan 988 Crisis Response Act Sept. 3 to fund professional mobile crisis response teams dispatched by 988 Lifeline operators as well as establish Medicaid reimbursement for crisis call centers and resources. The legislation…
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has sold Dominion Hospital, a behavioral health facility in Falls Church, Va., to Woodmere, N.Y.-based Hill Valley Healthcare for $25 million. The company approached HCA as part of its interest in making additional investments in Virginia,…
Northern Nevada Health System based in Reno has reopened two facilities Aug. 28 after evacuation orders related to the Hawk Fire prompted their closures. The emergency room at North Valleys, an extension of Northern Nevada Medical Center, resumed normal operations…
Wildwood Recovery Center will open Sept. 28, 2026, in Clintwood, Va. The inpatient residential addiction and behavioral health treatment facility will have a 112-bed capacity, with seven separate 16-bed dormitory buildings across the campus, according to a news release shared…
Southeast Arkansas Behavioral Healthcare System, Arkansas’ first community mental health center, will end operations after more than 62 years, with its four behavioral health clinics transitioning to two other organizations. The nonprofit said changes in the healthcare landscape had made…