Becker’s Behavioral Health

The number of U.S. specialty behavioral health hospitals rose to 667 in 2024, an increase of 22 since 2020, according to the American Hospital Association’s 2026 Fast Facts: Behavioral Health infographic. Specialty behavioral health hospitals made up 11% of all…

Stimulants were involved in 46.2% of drug use-associated infective endocarditis hospitalizations in 2022, up from 37.3% in 2016, according to a study published Oct. 27 in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora,…

Portland, Ore.-based Central City Concern will permanently close the Letty Owings Center, Oregon’s largest residential addiction treatment center for pregnant and parenting women, at the end of October, InvestigateWest reported Oct. 29. The 29-bed center opened in 1989 and allowed…

Houston-based PsychPlus has acquired Precision Psychiatric Services, a California psychiatric group, adding more than 100 psychiatrists to its clinical network. PsychPlus announced the deal Oct. 23. Financial terms were not disclosed. Precision, founded in 2018, is a physician-led organization with…

Mikia Antoneice Noble, co-owner and COO of Advancing Communities Everywhere, a mental health provider in the Richmond, Va., area, was arrested Oct. 28 on federal charges alleging the company billed Virginia Medicaid more than $49 million for crisis services it…

New York will receive $10 million in federal funding over five years to expand behavioral health services in primary care settings, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Oct. 27. The state Office of Mental Health will administer the grant through…

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has given $15 million to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland to build a behavioral health wing that will include the hospital’s first dedicated inpatient psychiatric rooms. The 21,300-square-foot wing will have 20 private inpatient psychiatric rooms…

Federal health officials have proposed loosening a ban on mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, or MGPI, a potent opioid compound found in some kratom products, to allow the substance at certain levels, The New York Times reported Oct. 28. HHS Secretary Robert F.…