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A Physician-Scientist in the Real Clinical World—Authors’ Reply
We are grateful to Dr. Scharko, who drew on his experience as a physician, scientist, educator, and mentor to offer a thoughtful response to our brief Commentary1 that reflects an important perspective.2 We agree with his concern that protected time and funding to conduct research…
A Physician-Scientist in the Real Clinical World
The Commentary by Veenstra-VanderWeele et al.1 is most persuasive in its call to combine clinical and research training within child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) fellowship programs. The field is wide open, and anyone with the appropriate training as a physician-scientist will be able to make…
Navigating the needs of Hospitals and Inpatient Services
As hospitals continue to navigate the complexities of behavioral health care, the need for reliable, high-quality psychiatric provider staffing and management has never been more critical. At Integrated Psychiatric Consultants (IPC), we specialize in partnering with hospitals to deliver comprehensive psychiatric services that are both…
Newport Healthcare Brings Back CEO, Lays Off Staff
Newport Healthcare’s CEO office is turning over at the same time it institutes additional layoffs and facility closures to again shrink its national footprint. This is the third such action in the past year or so. Brian Setzer, who became CEO on Dec. 9, 2024,…
Assessing Suicide Risk Reduction in the Interval Before Death by Suicide Using Natural Language Processing
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — There is enduring clinical apprehension around high-suicide-risk patients whose symptoms seem to quickly improve.1 This worry centers on the possibility that what is perceived as improvement may be fleeting or, worse, could represent a means…
Focused Behavior Solutions Files for Bankruptcy Citing Reimbursement Delays as Key Cause
Focused Behavior Solutions, an applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy provider based in Walla Walla, Washington, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to court documents. The filing documents cited delayed reimbursement payments and high-cost debt as two factors contributing to the organization’s cash flow issues.…
Hungry for Scale, Wary of Reimbursement: The Behavioral Health M&A Dilemma
To sell or not to sell, that is the question facing private equity and behavioral health operators today. Timing the market has rarely felt this complicated. On one hand, it’s hard to turn on the news without hearing about today’s inflationary pressures on consumers, and…
Vintage Find, Modern Emergency: Unexpected Methaqualone Ingestion in an Adolescent
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — Adolescents with substance use disorders may obtain intoxicants through unconventional sources. We report a case of an adolescent who ingested what he believed to be an over-the-counter cold preparation obtained at an estate sale with…
Acute Psychosis and Delirium During Menstruation in a Premenopausal Woman With Urinary Tract Infection
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — Delirium is a recognized complication of urinary tract infection (UTI) in older adults, with proposed mechanisms including neuroinflammation, vascular dysfunction, metabolic disturbance, neurotransmitter imbalance, and impaired neuronal connectivity.1 A 2015 systematic review2 extending beyond geriatric…
Editorial: Sensory Features and Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Sensory differences have been recognized as a feature of autism since Leo Kanner, and current diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) list hyper- or hyporeactivity to sensory input or unusual sensory interests as one of four manifestations of restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs).1 So…
Rogers Behavioral Health Raises $83M, Acquires Outpatient Provider
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin-based nonprofit Rogers Behavioral Health has raised more than $83.3 million in municipal bonds to fuel a multisite expansion plan and refinance old debt. About $35 million will go to its capital projects, while $46 million will refund existing bonds, according to public bond…
‘This Is What Maturity Looks Like’: How Increased Scrutiny in Autism Can Advance Progress
Join leading names in the autism therapy industry at Autism Investor Summit East in Washington, D.C., Nov. 9–10. Featured speakers will include Alisha Simpson-Watt, founder of Collaborative ABA Services, and Elizabeth Broomfield, managing partner of Aquitaine Capital, who are quoted below. Connect with other providers,…
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