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 […]

Sheppard Pratt Creates New Division to Meet Behavioral Care Demand Nationwide

Towson, Maryland-based Sheppard Pratt Hospital — which is one of the oldest psychiatric health systems in the country — has launched a new division to expand service access throughout its Baltimore-area homebase and beyond. Sheppard Pratt Solutions will use mental health professionals to provide consulting, management services and development-based partnerships with health care organizations nationwide. […]

Post-Election Cycle, IMD Exclusion Remains a Divisive Behavioral Health Issue

Arguably one of the most polarizing issues concerning behavioral health for years — and perhaps decades — has been the restriction on federal funds for psychiatric institutions holding a certain number of inpatient beds. The prohibition on so-called “institutes of mental diseases” (IMD) is better known as the IMD exclusion and has been in place […]