Digital mental health platform Resilience Lab is expanding services in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, with plans to grow to nine Northeast states this year. New York-based Resilience is now available to 33 million tri-state area residents, with access open to residents who are in-network with UnitedHealthcare and Humana. To […]
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Franklin, Tennessee-based Acadia Healthcare Company Inc. (Nasdaq: ACHC) has announced a replacement for retiring CEO Debbie Osteen. The company’s board of directors announced on Friday that it has named Christopher Hunter to the role. He will also hold a seat on the board, according to a news release. He starts on April 11. “The board […]
Virtual medication-assisted therapy (MAT) provider Ophelia Health Inc. has partnered with the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing to prepare more clinicians to care for people struggling with opioid addiction. The program, launched in January, also aims to put students who join the pilot program at the UPenn nursing school on the path toward receiving […]
Austin, Texas-based startup Legion Health follows a tantalizing track of the development of another high-profile health care startup that turned heads with a big-time funding round. Also based in Austin, Wheel Health Inc. landed a $150 million Series C investment round to scale up its platform which gives any organization the needed infrastructure to provide […]
The issue of workforce shortages continues to be one of behavioral health’s most pressing concerns, and it has hit California especially hard. Newly introduced legislation out of the nation’s most populous state aims to rectify the problem by directing financial incentives at would-be behavioral professionals currently attending colleges and universities. The Behavioral Health Workforce Revitalization […]
Among the litany of concerns that continue to offer no relief for behavioral health providers is that of workforce shortages. It is estimated that over a third of the country lives in areas with behavioral health provider shortages. In the absence of a unified industry strategy to tackle the problem, some like addiction treatment provider […]
Dr. Caroline Carney, chief medical officer for Magellan Health Inc., now also holds the additional role of president of behavioral health for Magellan Healthcare. Magellan Health announced Friday that Carney will help the company advance its clinical mission, further establishing it as a leader in behavioral health through collaborative and integrated approaches across the health […]
Multi-state treatment provider American Addiction Centers Holdings (AAC) has named Dr. Tom Britton as its new CEO. Britton comes to AAC from the Chicago-based Gateway Foundation. Britton had been president and CEO of Gateway – one of the largest non-profit addiction treatment providers in the nation – since 2015. “I am both humbled and excited […]
One of the autism care industry’s largest providers has made some major changes to its leadership ranks. The Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) named Jennifer Webster as its CEO on Wednesday. She replaces Tony Kilgore, who had been in the position since 2019 and resigned for undisclosed reasons. Webster has been with CARD […]
Trumpet Behavioral Health, a multi-state provider of applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy services, has announced the appointment of Joshua Sleeper as its CEO. Sleeper has been with Trumpet since 2006 and was most recently the president and COO of the Lakewood, Colorado-based provider. Sleeper assumes Trumpet’s CEO post from Ned Carlson. “Over the course of […]
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