Each year, we face the proverbial mirror toward readers and show the stories that garnered the most attention by listing our most-read stories of the year. Unsurprisingly, articles that inform vital functions of a behavioral health professional’s work life dominate the mix. Still, some of our coverage crossed over into the wider newsreading public’s media […]
More allegations about Acadia Healthcare (Nasdaq: ACHC) have surfaced in the press, this time reporting sexual assault at one of the company’s behavioral health hospitals. A male patient at Acadia-owned Options Behavioral Health Hospital raped another patient with severe mental illness, according to reporting by Mirror Indy. A nurse had reported to higher-ups that the […]
Los Angeles-based Amae Health has raised another $6 million through a partnership with nonprofit academic health system Cedars-Sinai. The in-person, serious mental illness-focused startup will integrate electronic medical records with Cedars-Sinai as Amae Health care for patients with serious mental illness (SMI). This deal comes after a $15 million Series A funding round, announced in […]
Limbic, raised $14 million in March to expand into the U.S. market. Now it has done so. The London-based mental health artificial intelligence (AI) company has clinched a partnership with the nonprofit behavioral health system Rogers Behavioral Health. Through the deal, Rogers Behavioral Health is changing its “front door” screening system from primarily phone-based to […]
MiraCare Group filed for bankruptcy protection after its fledgling psychiatric hospital project collapsed in the south suburban Chicagoland area. The development is representative of the challenges that psychiatric hospitals face. Despite desperate demand for these services, they are increasingly less viable enterprises, leading to disinvestment in many instances. The company, based in Palos Heights, Illinois, […]
Behavioral health utilization is accelerating even as other levels of care are diminishing in the wake of the COVID pandemic. A new report from the health care data and services company Trilliant Health shows that behavioral health utilization in the U.S. was up 40% in 2023 compared to 2019. Utilization is also accelerating. Behavioral health […]
Behavioral health care giant Acadia Healthcare (Nasdaq: ACHC) will pay $19.85 million to the U.S. and several states’ governments to resolve allegations that it knowingly billed for medically unnecessary behavioral health services and endangered patients. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) alleged that Acadia falsely billed Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE for inpatient behavioral health services […]
For years, health systems have been teaming up with external providers to better serve the individuals entering and exiting their facilities. A prime example of this trend is post-acute care, with most of the nation’s large health systems now having robust home health and hospice strategies. To some degree, this trend hasn’t hit behavioral health […]
Older Americans feel that the health care system rarely accounts for the totality of their health care wants and needs, including behavioral health. About half of those age 65 and older (45%) say their doctor asks about their mental health. Even fewer, about 40%, consider their cognitive and brain functioning. “Older adults are stuck in […]
Acadia Healthcare Co. Inc. (Nasdaq: ACHC) is now more likely to shutter underperforming facilities than in the past. The Franklin, Tennessee-based behavioral health operator has closed five facilities in the last month, CEO Chris Hunter said on Acadia Healthcare’s second-quarter earnings call. It closed two in the previous quarter. “If we’re seeing facilities that are […]
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