Three employees of Valleywise Behavioral Health Center in Phoenix were arrested Aug. 25 for allegedly abusing a patient in their care, AZ Central reported Aug. 30.
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Locust Street Resource Center is opening a new mental health facility in Jacksonville, Ill., WLDS reported Aug. 31.
A 24-hour crisis care center is slated to open in September in Frederick, Md., Maryland Matters reported Aug. 31.
A former behavioral health clinician filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging she was fired after reporting allegations that inmates at Westmoreland County Prison, based in Greensburg, Pa., received insufficient mental healthcare, according to an Aug. 28 report from Trib Live.
A program that provides more accessible mental healthcare to rural communities received funding to expand across the entirety of the state of Illinois, according to an Aug. 30 report from wfiwradio.com.
UM Center for Translational Medicine, part of the Missoula-based University of Montana, is helping create vaccines to prevent fentanyl and heroin drug overdoses, which are approaching human trials, according to an Aug. 29 report from NBC Montana.
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Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health is partnering with Bladen County schools in North Carolina to offer behavioral health services to students in the rural county.
Compassion Behavioral Health has opened a mental health and addiction treatment center in Hollywood, Fla.
The state of Ohio has awarded $5 million in grants to organizations improving access to crisis mental healthcare across southwest Ohio, Dayton Daily News reported Aug. 30.