Behavioral Health News

Aetna Better Health of West Virginia — a CVS Health company — has partnered with Community Care of West Virginia to increase access to child and adolescent psychiatry services in the state.

Mental and behavioral health providers at the Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Portland, Ore., have voted to unionize, The Lund Report reported Aug. 24.

Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth will close Sacred Heart Medical Center University District in Eugene, Ore., due to underutilization.

Dallas-based Steward Health Care System is looking to expand Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, Mass., to include more behavioral health services, NBC Boston reported Aug. 24.

Here are 14 behavioral health projects and grants totaling over $411 million Becker's reported on in August:

Embark Behavioral Health — a network of mental health treatment programs for young people and their families — has released its first clinical outcomes report.

Washoe County (Nev.) Commissioners have voted to buy the closed West Hills Behavioral Health Hospital in Reno, Nev., CBS affiliate KTVN reported Aug. 23.

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital and Lifepoint Behavioral Health, a business unit of Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health, broke ground on the TGH Behavioral Health Hospital, which will become the only freestanding academic medical behavioral health hospital in Florida.

Orlando-based Central Florida Behavioral Hospital had to add 20 percent more beds for adolescent patients to account for the rise in admissions compared to August 2022, according to an Aug. 17 report from clickorlando.com.

UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital will start accepting patients at its new space within UCSF Mount Zion Medical Center in San Francisco on Aug. 19.