Behavioral Health News

From new behavioral health crisis units to full facilities, here are nine new behavioral health projects that Becker's has reported on since Jan. 16:

Although the numbers of state psychiatric hospital beds have largely either decreased or remained stagnant across 37 states, some states increased their number of beds between 2016 and 2022.

The Illinois Department of Human Services has partnered with Google Public Sector to develop a youth behavioral health resources portal.

St. Mary's Regional Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine, Ga., is seeking $10 million in state funding to cover the deficit from its behavioral health service line and launch a new program, the Portland Press Herald reported Jan. 28.

State psychiatric beds are declining in number, and those that are available are often occupied by patients committed to the hospital through the legal system, leaving even fewer state beds available for other patients, according to a recent report from…

Overlook Medical Center in Summit, N.J., has expanded to include a behavioral health crisis unit.

A behavioral health urgent care has opened in Jacksonville, N.C.

River Edge Behavioral Health is demolishing a shopping complex to make way for a new behavioral health center and outpatient clinic in Macon, Ga.

Montefiore Health System has been named a New York State Office of Mental Health Behavioral Health Center of Excellence.

Psychiatry lands close to the bottom of the specialties ranked by burnout levels in Medscape's 2024 "Physician Burnout and Depression Report."