After a busy 2021 opening new facilities, Hopebridge Autism Therapy Centers has big plans on the service front as well for this year. Indianapolis-based Hopebridge, which is one of the nation’s largest providers of autism care services, announced Wednesday that it is planning to open up to 40 new clinics nationwide in 2022. The expansion […]
Category: Staffing
Talkiatry fills leadership roles with new hires Virtual behavioral health provider Talkiatry has added to its leadership team with two new hires. Adam Bunke joins New York-based Talkiatry as its head of design. Bunke comes to the company from Philips, where he was a design director and creative strategist for the global conglomerate. Bunke has […]
Lifestance Health Group Inc. CEO and Founder Michael Lester doesn’t see the many digital mental health providers that have flooded into the market as competitors for patients or for staff. That’s because Lifestance (NASDAQ: LFST) does what many in the ever-growing crowd of venture capital-backed digital mental health companies don’t. “We don’t see the pure-play […]
Universal Health Services Inc. struggled to staff up its behavioral health business despite being willing to pay a premium as it grapples with the national health care staffing shortage. However, the King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based acute care and behavioral health company simply can’t find enough workers to fully staff up to meet the demand that […]
St. Louis-based Centene Corp. (NYSE: CNC) has named former Magellan Health executive Jim Murray as its Chief Transformation Officer, the company announced Thursday. In the new role, Murray will lead the company’s Value Creation Office and the Centene Advanced Behavioral Health division and will report to Centene Board Vice-Chair Sarah London. Murray joins Centene following […]
Nearly two years of brutal workforce pressures have led Universal Health Services Inc. (NYSE: UHS) to restructure its behavioral health patient care models to be less reliant on registered nurses. UHS CFO Steve Filton said the King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based acute care and behavioral care company is finding state regulators receptive as it seeks clearance […]
Talkiatry adds senior vice president of operations Virtual behavioral health provider Talkiatry has named Vanessa Cao as its senior vice president of operations. Cao joins Talkiatry from New York-based wellness startup HealthQuarters, where she was the company’s head of operations. She has also previously held managerial roles with New York-based health system NYU Langone Health […]
Recruiting workers to fill vacancies remains one of behavioral health’s most formidable challenges. As the industry looks for creative solutions to tackle the problem, some believe that the mission to do so begins with getting enough prospective employees excited about growing in the profession. Emil Slane is the deputy commissioner and chief fiscal officer of […]
Groups Recover Together, which is in the midst of an ambitious nationwide expansion, is supporting those efforts with the addition of two new members to its C-suite. The Burlington, Massachusetts-based provider — known also as “Groups,” and which treats 9,000 members across 13 states for opioid use disorder (OUD) — has appointed Matt Levesque to […]
The Place for Children with Autism names new chief financial officer The Place for Children with Autism, a Chicago-based provider of applied behavior therapy (ABA), has named Kristin Schultz as its chief financial officer. Schultz arrives at The Place from R1 RCM, where she was the senior director of corporate accounting for the Utah-based health […]
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