Behavioral health leaders are confronting a structural mismatch: demand keeps outpacing capacity even as Medicaid pressures, workforce shortages and emergency department boarding intensify. A growing consensus holds that adding beds and providers alone won’t close the gap — what’s needed…
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Plano, Texas-based Beacon Behavioral Partners partnered with Wayne, Mich.-based Pure Psychiatry, establishing its first operations in Michigan and Ohio through the addition of a 17-location behavioral health platform. The agreement represented Beacon Behavioral Partners’ first expansion into the Midwest and…
Columbus, Ohio-based Maryhaven President and CEO Oyauma Garrison has stepped down after reaching a mutual agreement with the behavioral health provider’s board of directors, ABC affiliate WSYX reported July 15. Mr. Garrison will remain with the behavioral health provider for…
Houston-based PsychPlus has acquired Koa Health, a multinational digital mental health company, to expand its technology-enabled psychiatric and therapeutic care network. The companies announced the deal June 23. The combined organization now serves more than 6 million patients across the…
Coldwater, Mich.-based Insight Hospital and Medical Center will temporarily suspend its inpatient behavioral health services beginning July 22 after an evaluation identified the need to modernize the program’s physical space, operations and patient care, according to a July 15 report…
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Hillsboro (Ore.) Medical Center, an Oregon Health and Science University Health partner, will close its 21-bed Center for Geriatric Psychiatry Sept. 4, according to a July 10 statement shared with Becker’s. The 167-bed general medical and surgical facility is using…
Mental health leave is on the rise, Bloomberg reported July 8. Workforce mental health is especially relevant in healthcare, which faces rates of workplace violence far above the national average across industries. Healthcare and social assistance has an incidence rate of…
Hastings, Neb.-based Wabi Sabi Behavioral Health Center identified unauthorized access to parts of its network containing employee payroll records after a third party accessed an account using compromised credentials, The HIPPA Journal reported July 8. Here are three things to…
The Utah Department of Health and Human Services revoked the license of King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services-owned Provo Canyon Springville Campus, effective July 6. The facility must terminate all services by Aug. 6, and new enrollments are prohibited.…
Durango, Colo.-based Axis Health System will transition its regional crisis center to a walk-in crisis center on July 1. The change follows the June 30 closure of the center’s acute treatment unit. The walk-in crisis center will continue providing 24/7…