California highlighted 15 Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program projects that reached construction and ribbon opening milestones in the second quarter of 2026. The projects expand crisis, residential, youth, tribal and community-based behavioral health treatment capacity across the state, according to…
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Roughly 70 percent of medical decisions depend on lab results but lab spending remains one of the least scrutinized lines in a health plan’s budget. That blind spot is getting more expensive. Routine testing spend is climbing faster than the…
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Behavioral health leaders are grappling with a workforce paradox: Demand for services continues to grow, yet funding uncertainty and inadequate reimbursement rates are forcing some providers to reduce staff and scale back services. Here are 12 layoffs to know: 1.…
Nitazenes, a class of synthetic opioids, have spread through the U.S. illicit drug supply in recent years, drawing warnings from drug monitoring agencies about their extreme potency and overdose risk. The opioid class was first identified in the U.S. street…
About 38% of inpatient psychiatric mental health registered nurses reported high burnout, while 22% intended to leave their jobs within the next year, according to a study accepted for publication July 27 in the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health…
Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital in Berlin has cut four patient beds and laid off three staff, VTDigger reported Aug. 10. A declining patient census over the last five years led the state’s Department of Mental Health to make reductions, leaving the…
San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare has reduced its workforce and realigned operations across several areas of the health system, affecting about 260 employees, according to an Aug. 11 statement shared with Becker’s. Many of those employees were immediately offered alternative employment…
Wellstar Golisano Children’s Hospital of Georgia in Augusta cut the ribbon on the Kisner Foundation and Friends Center for Pediatric Development, Behavioral Health & Wellness in Augusta, Ga., WRDW reported Aug. 10. The facility consolidates pediatric clinics that had operated…
More than two months after California’s new nurse-to-patient staffing ratios for freestanding acute psychiatric hospitals took effect, state lawmakers are pushing regulators to loosen a rule that hospital leaders said has closed beds and destabilized the nursing workforce. Becker’s has…
University of Kentucky HealthCare based in Lexington opened an Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment and Healing (EmPATH) unit in July 2024 to treat behavioral health patients outside its emergency departments — a design choice that differs from many models nationally. The…