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:
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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:
Workforce is the defining challenge facing behavioral health in 2025, according to Veronica Hughes, RN, vice president of behavioral health nursing strategy and quality at Advocate Health. Advocate Health was created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium…
Boston-based The Stepping Stones Group has acquired Fullerton, Calif.-based Gallagher Pediatric Services. According to a news release from Hexagon Capital Alliance published in February, Gallagher Pediatric Services provides physical and occupational therapy in most Southern California school districts. The Stepping…
Eighty-two percent of psychiatrists said they believe happiness and balance is attainable in the profession, but the number of providers who said they are experiencing happiness is falling short, according to a March 7 Medscape report. The report surveyed 5,741…