King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services is continuing to execute its growth strategy, with a focus on outpatient and behavioral health expansion, President and CEO Marc D. Miller told Becker’s. The system’s recent plan to acquire online behavioral health…
Behavioral Health Technology
Behavioral health access remains one of the most persistent challenges facing health systems and payors today. Yet access alone is not enough. For patients to see meaningful improvement, behavioral health care must be timely, coordinated, and sustained across the care…
From emergency departments to pediatric units, health systems are increasingly turning to virtual care to address behavioral health access. Leaders are leveraging digital tools to expand capacity, help reduce unnecessary admissions and connect patients with treatment faster. Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy…
At OSF HealthCare based in Peoria, Ill., digital therapeutics are connecting patients to behavioral health services beyond hospital walls — and driving results, with patients seeing more than 50% improvement in patient health surveys, or PHQ-9 scores. The system uses…
With one click, Tulsa, Okla.-based Grand Mental Health is expanding behavioral health crisis care to local emergency departments and first responders by embedding technology into daily workflows and streamlining care delivery, Carl Hoopes, COO and executive vice president of the…
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The rise in telemedicine over the past several years hasn’t translated to more behavioral healthcare access in rural areas, according to a March 5 study in JAMA Network Open. Researchers from Boston-based Harvard Medical School and Providence, R.I.-based Brown University…
As financial pressure intensifies across healthcare, ambulatory organizations are being forced to rethink how they operate. Rising labor costs, staffing shortages, reimbursement complexity and growing patient expectations have made efficiency no longer optional—but foundational to sustainability. In a recent Becker’s…
In West Virginia, 50 of 55 counties are federally designated mental health professional shortage areas, and some families must travel two to four hours for specialty behavioral healthcare — if it is available at all. Keri Law, MD, a child…
As behavioral health crises drive prolonged emergency department boarding and staff burnout, health systems are adopting targeted strategies to ease the burden and improve care transitions. From building dedicated billing teams to integrating technology into daily workflow, behavioral health leaders…
Behavioral health providers are facing a convergence of rising demand, workforce shortages and administrative burden that leaders say can no longer be addressed with incremental fixes. During a recent webinar hosted by Becker’s Behavioral Health, technology executives and a front-line…