Leaders at Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare are building a virtual behavioral healthcare continuum designed to support patients after emergency department visits and connect them to care. The system has implemented phone- and text-based outreach programs designed to identify behavioral health…
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Rising costs, specialty drug pressure and Medicare Advantage headwinds are making sustained medical loss ratio performance harder to achieve. At many health plans, risk, quality, network and value-based initiatives are still managed through disconnected analytics tools or spreadsheets. This fragmentation…
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- Soyal Momin, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Major Health Plan
Oceans Behavioral Hospital—Lubbock (Texas), part of Plano, Texas-based Oceans Healthcare, has launched a virtual outpatient program aimed at expanding access to behavioral healthcare services across West Texas. The program offers structured, evidence-based care in a virtual setting, allowing individuals to remain…
Sacramento, Calif.-based Crestwood Behavioral Health has appointed David Bond as program chief for behavioral health. Mr. Bond joins the provider after several years working on the payer and policy side of behavioral health, according to a March 11 LinkedIn post.…
Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center has created a department of social work to enhance training and career advancement opportunities for those in the profession. The department will provide career development pathways, educational opportunities and professional support for social workers…
Plano, Texas-based Oceans Healthcare has appointed Jamie Higgins as CEO of Oceans Behavioral Hospital in Opelousas, La. In 2022, Ms. Higgins joined Oceans Healthcare at Haven Behavioral Hospital-Phoenix, where she served as director of clinical services, according to a Feb.…
San Francisco secured nearly $100 million in Proposition 1 funding to expand behavioral health treatment capacity across three sites, including a project at University of California, San Francisco Health Hyde Hospital. The funding includes $70.2 million to add 50 locked…
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…
Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare has named retired Tenet Healthcare CFO Daniel Cancelmi to its board of directors. Mr. Cancelmi joins the board effective immediately, according to a March 12 Acadia news release. He retired from Dallas-based Tenet at the end…
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has updated its statewide online mental health bed registry to provide hourly updates and integrate the system with the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. The Behavioral Health Statewide Central Availability Navigator,…