Behavioral Health News

Springdale, Ark.-based Arisa Health broke ground on its new mental health clinic, Talk Business & Politics reported Aug. 30.

GLP-1 drugs could be useful in treating some behavioral health conditions, early research shows. 

Here are 28 behavioral health treatment facilities that have opened or are now in development through 20 projects, as reported by Becker's since June 17:

Five Acres, a child services nonprofit based in Altadena, Calif., partnered with Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente to offer crisis stabilization services for children and youth in need of higher-acuity outpatient care, according to an Aug. 26 post on the organization's…

Council Bluffs, Iowa-based Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital and Acadia Healthcare broke ground on a behavioral health hospital.

Tampa, Fla.-based nonprofit Gracepoint began development of a $16 million behavioral health hospital that will be staffed exclusively by women, the Tampa Bay Times reported Aug. 27.

St. Luke's Behavioral Health Center, a 127-bed facility in Phoenix, has furloughed employees, effective Aug. 26, the hospital's owner, Dallas-based Steward Health Care, confirmed to Becker's.

Lancaster, Pa.-based Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development, the only outpatient pediatric therapy clinic in the area, will suspend its behavioral health services Aug. 31 due to a lack of providers, Central Penn Business Journal reported Aug. 26.

Salem-based Oregon State Hospital has received a statement of deficiencies from CMS highlighting concerns related to a patient death in May, the Statesman Journal reported Aug. 27.

Here are five updates on Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare, one of the largest behavioral health network in the U.S., as reported by Becker's since May 28: