Behavioral Health News

Clay County (Kan.) Medical Center is developing a $3.8 million expansion project that will include a new mental health clinic and other services in Clay Center, Kan. 

Geisinger and Acadia Healthcare have broken ground on a 96-bed hospital in Danville, Pa. 

Former staff at Jacksonville, N.C.-based Brynn Marr Hospital alleged they were told to falsify patient records to maximize insurance reimbursements, NC Health News reported May 7. 

The FDA's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee will consider whether to recommend approval for a psychedelic treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. 

A 16-bed crisis stabilization unit in Fayetteville, Ark., has closed, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported April 29. 

Penn State Health is searching for a new site for the Harrisburg-based Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute. 

Salem-based Oregon State Hospital again has been cited with immediate jeopardy, this time over disorganized medical supplies that could delay lifesaving treatment for a patient in an emergency, The Lund Report reported April 29.

Here are three behavioral health leaders who changed roles or added to their titles in the last month, as reported by Becker's since April 4:

Optum is seeking repayment from licensed clinical social workers it says it overpaid. 

There is still a "great deal of uncertainty" around how a $535 million verdict against UHS will affect the hospital system's finances, CFO Steve Filton said.