Becker’s Behavioral Health

Federal regulators are drawing a firmer line between the kratom leaf and the concentrated, lab-altered compounds sold beside it in gas stations, smoke shops and online. The consequences of that second category are already showing up in poison center calls,…

A series of recent studies highlights widening gaps in mental health access, shifting prescription patterns and mixed outcomes across behavioral healthcare in the U.S. The findings point to growing pressures on providers, uneven availability of services and emerging questions around…

Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth secured certificate-of-need approval from the Oregon Health Authority for its proposed 89-bed psychiatric hospital in Springfield, Ore. The project, known as Timber Springs Behavioral Health Hospital, now hinges on an annexation request pending before the Springfield City…

From a 292-bed state-funded psychiatric hospital in Texas to New Mexico’s only children’s emergency psychiatric unit, hospitals and health systems are expanding behavioral health access as demand continues to grow, representing more than $730 million in investment. Here are 60…

Three health systems have each put nine figures behind behavioral health, and two of them already have results to show for it. The spending stretches across the full continuum of care: new inpatient beds, dedicated psychiatric emergency space, outpatient follow-up…

Every week, Detroit-based Henry Ford Health’s behavioral health service was seeing 500 to 600 referrals from patients arriving in primary care. Deepak Prabhakar, MD, wanted to make sure those referrals end with the right care, not just an appointment. The…

From large health systems to community-based centers, behavioral health providers are facing adversity with pending regulatory actions, looming funding changes and cuts to already tight reimbursement rates, leading to the closure of facilities and potential disruptions of care.  Here are…

The Georgia Poison Center has received 315 calls involving kratom-like products, including synthetic kratom, and reported four related deaths in 2026, according to an Oct. 14 report from WSB-TV. Eight out of every 10 calls involve the hospitalization of an…