New layoffs at the end of October reflect the downward pressures on the residential care model. Two closures have impacted 356 employees, according to public documents. One entity will continue to operate while another appears to be heading for closure. In Dearborn Heights, Michigan, the nonprofit, youth-focused behavioral health and social services provider Vista Maria […]
A new behavioral health provider is aiming to address two of the industry’s biggest challenges: the rising cost of pediatric inpatient care and the need to develop a skilled, sustainable workforce. Embark Behavioral Health vet Chris Perkins is launching a new youth-focused behavioral health provider dubbed Velocity. The facility, slated to open this fall, will […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story Once unheard of at scale, in-home health and telehealth have now become a new normal for many care modalities. As scale widens and scope deepens among these delivery models in the mental health space, could it change the way addiction treatment is practiced for good? Some experts think so. […]
How an organization handles its addiction treatment real estate will dictate its direction — now and in the future. Real estate makes up both the literal and proverbial foundation of an addiction treatment organization. With continued innovation in care models and increased use of telehealth, the age-old issue of real estate finds new relevance. “A […]
A united front of leaders from Acadia Healthcare (Nasdaq: ACHC) and Geisinger Health System are pressing for the annulment of Medicare’s longstanding 190-day lifetime coverage cap for inpatient psychiatric treatment. Acadia Chief Strategy Officer Andrew Lynch, CEO Chris Hunter and Chief Medical Officer Stephanie Eken, as well as Imad Melhem, chair of psychiatry and behavioral […]
Nashville, Tennessee-based Acute Behavioral Health has acquired Nova Behavioral Health’s residential treatment facility in Kinston, North Carolina. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The facility operates 42 beds across three different buildings on a six-acre campus. Technically speaking, the facility, called Oakwood Treatment Center, is licensed by North Carolina as a psychiatric residential […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story While workforce woes have begun to improve in the behavioral health industry overall, the idea of mandatory staffing minimums in psychiatric hospitals has started to circulate. For many of us, 2004 was the year of low-rise jeans, wearing dresses with pants and LiveStrong bracelets. If you were in the […]
More allegations of abuse and misconduct at an Acadia Healthcare (Nasdaq: ACHC) facility have surfaced in an investigation by The New York Times, which reports alleged instances of patient suicide and rape. The latest report comes just two months after Acadia Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest behavioral health providers, shuttered its troubled Timberline Knolls […]
Nonprofit behavioral health provider Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health has acquired Strawberry Fields, a nonprofit provider of mental health, autism and intellectual disability care. Strawberry Fields will continue to operate as an independent legal entity but will have access to the larger organization’s systems and clinical model as an affiliate of Devereux. The acquisition will enable […]
Not-for-profit behavioral health care provider Rogers Behavioral Health and for-profit workforce mental health provider Lyra Health have forged an alliance. The collaboration, announced Tuesday, gives Lyra access to Rogers’ health plan networks while allowing Rogers to scale its virtual services using Lyra’s national footprint. For Rogers and Lyra executives, the most important aspect of the […]
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