Mental Health News

By Tony Leys May 8, 2025 7:00 AM ET SPENCER, Iowa — This town’s hospital is a holdout on behalf of people going through mental health crises. The facility’s leaders have pledged not to shutter their inpatient psychiatric unit, as dozens of other U.S. hospitals have. Keeping that promise could soon get tougher if Congress slashes…

The administration ended a legal program in all but three states for immigrants deemed mentally incompetent. Attorneys says they could be deported to persecution, torture and death. By Suzanne Gamboa May 6, 2025, 11:37 AM CDT The Trump administration has pulled the plug on a program that provides legal help to immigrants who are determined mentally…

March 12, 2025 5:00 AM ET By Katia Riddle In the wake of federal firings and executive orders, providers and patients at the Department of Veterans Affairs say mental health and mental health care are suffering. They fear this struggle will get worse as the VA carries through with 80,000 promised job cuts. The agency is one of the…

by Lori Solomon Feb 4, 2025 There are significant mental health disparities between sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations and cisgender heterosexual populations (non-SGM), according to a study published online Jan. 29 in JAMA Network Open. Junjie Anderson Lu, M.D., from Stanford University in California, and colleagues explored mental health disparities between SGM and non-SGM populations…

by Mary Hudetz and Hannah Bassett Jan. 27, 2025, 7 a.m. EST Reporting Highlights At least 40 Native American residents of sober living homes and treatment facilities in the Phoenix area died as state Medicaid officials struggled to respond to a massive fraud scheme that targeted Indigenous people with addictions. The deaths, almost all from drug and…

Shi Bradley/Cronkite News Oct. 9, 2024 CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story included incorrect information about the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System. AHCCCS does not have responsibility for opening facilities or licensing new facilities related to court-ordered mental health treatment. Also, information about an involuntary hold for Jane Jepson’s son, Nick, was not correct.…

By Carma Hassan and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Updated 3:43 PM EDT, Mon September 9, 2024 The Biden administration announced a final rule on Monday meant to expand access and lower costs for care for mental health and substance use disorders. Most provisions in the rule will apply to group health plans and health insurance issuers for plan years starting…

Eric Tegethoff Friday, August 23, 2024    Oregon aims to make social and emotional health care for young children more available with a new metric. The Oregon Health Authority has adopted the Child-Level Social Emotional Health Metric, which will improve and incentivize care for kids from birth to age 5 who are on the state’s Medicaid program.…

By: Brooklyn Draisey – August 22, 2024 2:01 pm Aubrey McEnroe was manning a county fair booth for the University of Iowa’s Telepsychology Training Clinic when a fairgoer approached her, teary-eyed. The individual had sought mental health services in the past with no luck and had just learned about the clinic, where McEnroe, other UI students, staff and…

The clinic is funded by the city and officially opens to patients beginning September 3. It will not provide emergency crisis services. Philadelphia now has its first urgent care facility for mental health needs that will provide psychiatric evaluations, quick counseling sessions, prescription refills, and referrals. A white brick building near North Broad Street and…