Concert Health Sets Stage for Big 2022, Plans to Hire Hundreds as It Expands to More States

Concert Health kicked off 2021 with a bang by raising $14 million in Series A funding. Having recently passed the 20,000-patient threshold, Concert is looking to achieve multiples of that number for 2022 while expanding its geographic reach and potentially hiring hundreds of new workers. Concert’s services revolve around the model of collaborative care, which […]

Inside the Launch and Ambition of Sheppard Pratt’s New Services Division

In the behavioral health world, Sheppard Pratt has long been a stalwart. Founded in 1853, Towson, Maryland-based Sheppard Pratt is the nation’s largest nonprofit provider of mental health, substance use disorder (SUD), developmental disability, special education and social services. Ranked as one of the top hospitals for psychiatry by US News & World Report, Sheppard […]

I Am Boundless Brings Whole Care Continuum to I/DD Population, Making Moves to Value-Based Care

When it comes to behavioral health, Ohio has garnered much attention due to substance addiction plaguing wide swaths of the state. But outside of substance use disorders (SUDs), there are many Buckeye State residents needing behavioral health assistance for very different reasons, such as for autism and other conditions related to intellectual and developmental disabilities […]

Industry Must Build Out Entire Behavioral Health Continuum, Says NABH CEO

To say Shawn Coughlin has a lot on his mind these days is putting it mildly. Throughout the pandemic, behavioral health conditions nationwide have worsened and substance use disorder (SUD) overdose rates have continually broken records. Although the numbers paint a bleak picture, Coughlin — who heads one of the behavioral health industry’s leading groups […]

Private Equity-Backed BrightView Health Focused on Scaling High-Quality Addiction Treatment

The addiction treatment market — estimated to be worth $42 billion — has grown alongside the nationwide rise in substance use disorders (SUDs). A number of multi-state providers have consequently emerged in the treatment field, among them being BrightView Health, whose homebase is in a region significantly wracked by SUDs. Headquartered in Cincinnati, BrightView operates […]

OneFifteen Using Science, Google-Backed Partnership to Tackle SUD

The nation’s substance use disorder (SUD) epidemic continues to climb to new heights, with opioid use disorder (OUD) proving especially hard to beat back. But in a region of the country that knows too well the toll of OUD, one treatment provider is stepping up in the fight through a partnership with one the world’s […]

Armed With Growth Funding, Connections Health Solutions Aims to Take Crisis Stabilization Model Nationwide

Phoenix-based Connections Health Solutions recently scored $30 million in its first-ever round of growth funding, which came from the private equity firm The Heritage Group. While the crisis stabilization company has been around for more than a decade, it’s growth story is just getting started, in large part thanks to that new funding. Founded in […]

Modern Health’s New COO Brings Lessons Learned from Google, Lyft Amid Era of Hypergrowth

Modern Health — a behavioral health unicorn that bills itself as a one-stop shop for employee mental health benefits — has added a new chief operating officer. Gyre Renwick, a Silicon Valley alum who was an early employee at both Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) and Lyft (Nasdaq: LYFT), stepped into the position earlier this month. Headquartered […]

Little Leaves President Eyes East Coast Expansion Opportunities, Shares ABA Workforce Retention Strategy

Since Little Leaves Behavioral Services was founded about five years ago, the center-based applied behavioral analysis (ABA) provider has grown by four times. That includes the addition of two new locations in the past few weeks, and its expansion from the Mid-Atlantic into Florida for the first time last year. Now, the provider — which […]