Racial and ethnic health disparities cost the U.S. $451 billion in 2018, according to a study published May 16 on JAMA Health Network.
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Denton, Texas-based family medicine physician Stanley Charles Evans, MD, was sentenced to 40 months in prison for opioid charges, the Justice Department said May 19.
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The University of South Florida is offering a free online course to educate managers and employees on addressing mental health within their organizations.
Legislators in Missouri have approved $300 million for a new state behavioral health hospital, but Gov. Mike Parson has not signed off on it, the Kansas City Star reported March 19.
Matthew Peterson, executive vice president and president of behavioral health for King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, is the fifth highest-paid executive of the organization.
Emergency room visits for mental health conditions, suicide-related behaviors and drug overdoses among adolescents decreased from 2021 to 2022, according to a report published May 12 by the CDC.
Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine plans to open a crisis response center at its Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania-Cedar Avenue, also in Philadelphia, Penn Today reported May 19.
Johnstown Heights (Colo.) Behavioral Health may see a renewed police investigation into the November death of one of its patients, ABC affiliate Denver7 reported May 18.
Wauwatosa, Wis.-based Froedtert Health closed the behavioral health unit at its Menomonee Falls hospital, the Milwaukee Business Journal reported May 19.