Behavioral Health News

Renton, Wash.-based Providence will close its inpatient psychiatric unit for children at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash. 

Former employees of Retreat Behavioral Health have still not been paid for their final weeks of work. 

UnitedHealth Group's Optum, the largest employer of physicians in the U.S., is expanding its reach in behavioral health. 

The Maryland Department of Health plans to terminate its agreement with the Treatment Research Unit at Spring Grove Hospital Center in a move that some worry could reduce schizophrenia treatment options at the center, The Baltimore Sun reported July 1.

A second executive at a recently closed behavioral health facility chain has died. 

Retreat Behavioral Health has abruptly closed multiple treatment centers, according to local media reports. 

Nonprofit mental health organization Brook Lane is affiliating with Meritus Health beginning July 1.

Cleveland-based MetroHealth plans to open a new psychiatric emergency department as another closes its doors. 

Bozeman (Mont.) Health has grown its mental health staff from one psychiatrist in 2017 to nearly 40 clinicians. 

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is planning a $96 million pediatric behavioral health center.