The state plans to open 25 community behavioral health centers early next year as Massachusetts residents continue to struggle with increased mental health challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Additional capacity for mental health treatment comes at critical time (Editorial)
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The pandemic has cast a wide and troubling net related to our physical and mental health. It’s hardly surprising Researchers from the National Center for Health Statistics and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that recent symptoms of anxiety and depression rose during the pandemic, notably between August 2020 and February 2021.
Our region is slowly but surely building up resources to make behavioral health treatment more accessible to residents.
After Providence Behavioral Health Hospital, part of Trinity Health of New England, ended inpatient psychiatric services at its 74-bed facility in June, the situation for Western Massachusetts residents seeking care looked dire. The closing worsened an already chronic shortage of beds in the region. In February, Health Partners of New England announced it had purchased Providence and would rename the facility MiraVis
New owner seeks to restore, expand inpatient psychiatric care at former Providence Hospital in Holyoke
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Posted Mar 01, 2021
Providence Hospital Behavioral Health in Holyoke has been sold to Health Partners New England of Devens and GFI Partners of Boston for $4 million. (Don Treeger / The Republican)
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HOLYOKE Michael P. Krupa’s to-do list quickly filled with a “thousand items that have to be done” from licensing applications to food delivery preparations to hiring new employees after his Health Partners New England of Devens, along with a Boston-based real estate developer, bought Providence Behavioral Health Hospital.
Health Partners New England and GFI Partners of Boston announced on Feb. 17 that they will operate the new entity MiraVista Behavioral Health Center as a for-profit psychiatric hospital when they assume control in mid-April following a $4 million deal. Krupa said they expect to continue substance use disorder trea
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