Behavioral Health News

One in four mental health patients is rejected from mental health facilities in King County, Wash., The Seattle Times reported Sept. 5.

A new forensic psychiatric hospital has broken ground in Concord, N.H., New Hampshire Public Radio reported Aug. 31.

The Mental Health & Recovery Board for Licking and Knox Counties has received $3 million to buy land for a new crisis center, The Newark Advocate reported Sept. 1.

Horizon Behavioral Health has received local and state backing to open a crisis receiving center in Lynchburg, Va., ABC affiliate WSET reported Aug. 30.

Three employees of Valleywise Behavioral Health Center in Phoenix were arrested Aug. 25 for allegedly abusing a patient in their care, AZ Central reported Aug. 30.

Locust Street Resource Center is opening a new mental health facility in Jacksonville, Ill., WLDS reported Aug. 31.

A 24-hour crisis care center is slated to open in September in Frederick, Md., Maryland Matters reported Aug. 31.

A former behavioral health clinician filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging she was fired after reporting allegations that inmates at Westmoreland County Prison, based in Greensburg, Pa., received insufficient mental healthcare, according to an Aug. 28 report from Trib Live.

Here are 10 behavioral health centers opening or expanding that Becker's has reported on since Aug. 15:

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health is partnering with Bladen County schools in North Carolina to offer behavioral health services to students in the rural county.