The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement with Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to resolve its investigations into the company’s alleged failure to provide timely and appropriate access to mental health and substance use disorder services. The…
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Outdated federal policies continue to limit access to behavioral healthcare, leaving patients to bear the consequences, Stuart Archer, CEO of Oceans Healthcare, wrote in a Feb. 9 LinkedIn post. The Plano, Texas-based behavioral health provider operates psychiatric hospitals and outpatient…
Overall, 64% of mental health treatment facilities accept Medicare in the United States. South Carolina has the greatest percentage of centers that take Medicare, whereas California and Utah have the lowest. KFF reported the rate of mental health treatment facilities…
Overall, 85% of mental health treatment facilities accept Medicaid in the United States. Wyoming and the District of Columbia have the greatest percentage of centers that take Medicaid, whereas California has the lowest. KFF reported the rate of mental health…
Staten Island University Hospital in New York City was awarded state grant funding to expand behavioral health and addiction services across the borough. The hospital is part of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health. The funding includes $3.5 million in…
Leader Standard Work provides a proven operating model for consistently aligning leader behaviors around what matters most— standardized communications, leader rounding, etc—but has historically been difficult to scale. In this session, nursing executives from UNC Health and Boston Medical Center…
Mar 19, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM America/Chicago
Presented by:
Presenters
Nancy W. Gaden, DNP RN FAAN
SVP / Chief Nursing Officer at Boston Medical Center
Nicole Kolacz, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, CENP, FACHE
Vice President Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer at UNC REX Healthcare
Kelly Sutton MHA, BSN, RN, CCRN-K, CPAN
Director Perioperative Services, HOPD Clinics at UNC Rex Healthcare
Joel Ray COL, USAF, NC, MSN, RN, NEA-BC
Chief Clinical Advisor, Laudio
Overall, 83% of mental health treatment facilities accept private insurance in the United States. Wyoming has the greatest percentage of centers that take commercial insurance, whereas California and the District of Columbia have the lowest. KFF reported the rate of mental health…
Boston Children’s Hospital is developing a $650 million pediatric psychiatric hospital on Franciscan Children’s campus in Boston following a $100 million donation — the largest in the hospital’s history — aimed at integrating mental health across pediatric medicine and eliminating…
As behavioral health crises drive prolonged emergency department boarding and staff burnout, health systems are adopting targeted strategies to ease the burden and improve care transitions. From building dedicated billing teams to integrating technology into daily workflow, behavioral health leaders…
Bridgeway, a nonprofit organization offering behavioral health and developmental disability services in Galesburg, Ill., has appointed Clay Cunningham vice president of behavioral health. In the role, Mr. Cunningham will lead the organization’s behavioral health program, CEO Staci Danner said Feb.…