A psychiatric hospital in southeast Florida serving low-income and uninsured patients abruptly shut its doors earlier this month, according to The Palm Beach Post. The move potentially leaves hundreds of patients without access to care. The West Palm Beach-based Jerome Golden Center for Behavioral Health closed Oct. 18 following financial troubles — specifically a bankruptcy […]
Category: Psychiatric Care
Community Psychiatry Management has made two acquisitions in the Los Angeles area to deepen its already massive footprint in the state of California. The Sacramento, California-based mental health organization added both Calabasas Behavioral Health (CBH) and Gelbart and Associates in August. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. Community Psychiatry Management is the largest […]
Behavioral health startup Octave has raised $11 million in Series A funding. That brings the San Francisco-based company’s total raised up to $14 million, according to the online startup fundraising tracker Crunchbase. The investment round was led by New York-based private equity firm Greycroft, with money also coming from San Francisco-based venture capital firm Obvious […]
Controversial pilot programs that aimed to integrate behavioral and physical health care under the Michigan Medicaid program have been scrapped, according to Crain’s Detroit Business. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed the funding set aside to make the pilots possible earlier this month — a move that helped end the programs after years of disagreement and turmoil […]