Here are 14 behavioral health projects and grants totaling over $411 million Becker's reported on in August:
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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…
Embark Behavioral Health — a network of mental health treatment programs for young people and their families — has released its first clinical outcomes report.
Seventy-four percent of parents have missed work to address their children's mental health or academic performance, according to the results from the survey "Mental Health in the Classroom: The Impact on Kids, Teachers and Working Parents."
Washoe County (Nev.) Commissioners have voted to buy the closed West Hills Behavioral Health Hospital in Reno, Nev., CBS affiliate KTVN reported Aug. 23.
Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital and Lifepoint Behavioral Health, a business unit of Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health, broke ground on the TGH Behavioral Health Hospital, which will become the only freestanding academic medical behavioral health hospital in Florida.
The amount Americans with employer-provided health insurance have spent on mental health services rose 53 percent from March 2020 to August 2022, and that number is continuing to grow.
Hundreds of Native Americans have been scammed by fake rehabilitation centers in Phoenix, according to an Aug. 22 report from ABC News.
The governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, signed a new law enabling hospitals to apply for a court order to hold patients experiencing mental health crises for six days, according to an Aug. 22 report from northjersey.com.
The DEA recognized Aug. 21 as National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day to address the country's "most dangerous drug threat," Anne Milgram, DEA administrator, said in an Aug. 17 news release from the DEA.