Once Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center opens its new mental health facility in October, it will become the largest inpatient mental health provider among all U.S. children's hospitals, according to an Aug. 25 report from The Cincinnati Enquirer.
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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.
Embark Behavioral Health, a mental health treatment network for young people, has showcased positive patient outcomes in treatment of depression, anxiety, stress and suicidal thoughts in their first-ever clinical outcomes report, released Aug. 24.
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.
A new law in New Hampshire prohibits insurance companies from requiring members to receive prior authorization before obtaining coverage for emergency mental health or substance use care, according to an Aug. 23 report from New Hampshire Bulletin.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom made a key change to his mental health proposal by dropping the requirement for addiction services as a mandatory benefit, making one of the core provisions optional, according to an Aug. 24 report from Politico.
Here are 14 behavioral health projects and grants totaling over $411 million Becker's reported on in August:
Twenty-two counties across Washington and the state association of counties filed a lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services for "failure to provide adequate mental health services," according to an Aug. 23 report from The Seattle…