Gregory Bledsoe, MD, has joined Kindly Human, a peer counseling platform for behavioral health support, as a strategic advisor.
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The National Emergency Services Information System has released a report showing the national nonfatal opioid overdose rates from data collected between March 2022 and March 2023.
K-Assist, a Hamden, Conn.-based behavioral health provider, is required to pay over $243,000 to resolve allegations that it violated federal and state False Claims Acts, the Justice Department reported April 18.
The National Emergency Services Information System has released a report showing the national nonfatal opioid overdose rates from data collected between March 2022 and March 2023.
The Texas Senate has passed a bill that would allocate $115 million to expand the El Paso (Texas) Psychiatric Center State Hospital System, ABC affiliate KVIA reported April 17.
Washington, D.C.-based Unity Health Care has been awarded $2.3 million to establish the J. Willard and Alice S. Foundation Behavioral Health Development Fund to support its mental health fellowship program.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the state's Department of Technology, Management and Budget are teaming up to build a new inpatient psychiatric hospital.
Orlando, Fla., psychiatrist Iftikhar Rasul, MD, founder and medical director of Serene Behavioral Health, was restricted from seeing female patients six months after being arrested for allegedly touching a patient inappropriately, the third such allegation against him, the Miami Herald…
Morgan Medlock, MD, Colorado's inaugural chief of the state's behavioral health administration, has left the position after serving just 15 months, according to an April 17 report from the Colorado Sun.
Behavioral health is undergoing a broad awakening, with both leaders and the public increasingly seeing it as vital. The industry may fail to capture the full momentum of those tailwinds, however, if certain obstacles are not addressed.