Behavioral Health News

Lake Region Healthcare is closing its Bridgeway Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit in Fergus Falls, Minn.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health uses more than 30 virtual care programs to provide access to care to its patients, including those in need of behavioral health services.

A new behavioral health center has opened in Belpre, Ohio, The Marietta Times reported Feb. 2.

A Connecticut psychologist pleaded guilty to $1.6 million in Medicaid fraud. 

The Doña Ana County Triage Crisis Center in Las Cruces, N.M., has closed, CBS affiliate KOB reported Jan. 31.

Eight states have been selected to participate in a children's behavioral health state policy lab in Baltimore between Feb. 7 and 9, The Daily Record reported Jan. 31.

Several Optum-owned eating disorder clinics are set to close. 

Delaware is the state with the highest ratio of state psychiatric beds by population, according to data from the Treatment Advocacy Center.

Behavioral health provider Talkiatry has launched a telepsychiatry program for adults 65 and older.

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: