Behavioral health providers are on “pins and needles” anticipating possible federal medicaid funding cuts, Stephen Gillaspy, director of health policy and healthcare financing at the American Psychological Association told Stateline.  States could manage reduced federal funding several ways — including…

Americans’ self-reported mental health has reached its lowest level in 24 years, with younger adults — especially women — experiencing the sharpest declines, according to a March 13 Gallup report. The survey, conducted in partnership with West Health, is based…

Almost 500 mental health provider jobs have been eliminated in Colorado since the beginning of 2025, The Colorado Sun reported March 13.  Two behavioral facilities have closed their doors for good in the state in the first months of 2025.…

St. Paul, Minn.-based Partners Behavioral Healthcare has acquired four locations from Minneapolis-based Nuway, The Post Bulletin reported March 12.  Parenters Behavioral took over operations of Nuway’s intensive outpatient treatment centers in Rochester, Duluth, Mankato and St. Cloud, Minn., on March…

The first three months of 2025 have seen more than a dozen mergers and acquisitions in the behavioral health industry.  Here are 12 deals to note since Jan. 22: 

Penn Medicine’s Lancaster (Pa.) General Hospital opened a crisis walk-in center that provides immediate behavioral health assessments and treatments. The behavioral health center expects to serve 900 patients annually for interventional psychiatry and 10,000 patients through the walk-in center, both…

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration could be facing deep cuts as part of a broader effort to scale back the size of the federal government, The New York Times reported March 12.  Senior officials at the agency…

Westborough (Mass.) Behavioral Healthcare Hospital will open a second special needs inpatient unit for children with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disabilities.  The unit provides children ages 5-17 with autism and co-occurring behavioral health conditions treatment in sensory-friendly spaces with…

Zobeida Diaz, MD, has been named division director of women’s behavioral health at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I.  Dr. Diaz has played a key role in Women & Infants’ mother-baby partial hospitalization program, and the hospitals’ peripartum psychiatric…

Providers have recently opened new inpatient, outpatient and urgent care behavioral health facilities.  Here are 10 new sites that have opened since Feb. 12: