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Cherokee Nation Launches Behavioral Health Scholarship; NeuroFlow Acquires Behavioral Health Lab Parent Company · Becker's Healthcare Behavioral Health

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  This is Randy Homan with Becker's Behavioral Health Podcast.
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  Here's your industry news for Monday, July 24th. First,
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  Cherokee Nation is offering a behavioral health scholarship to support students
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  who live inside and outside the reservation as they enter the behavioral health
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  field. The Cherokee Nation Foundation will administer the scholarship.
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  It will be funded by the tribe's opioid industry settlements.
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  The scholarship will be available to undergraduate students who are Cherokee
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  Nation citizens and are likely to provide professional services within Cherokee
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  Nation following their graduation.
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  It will also be available to graduate or doctoral students who agree to a period
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  of grant payback in service to Cherokee Nation to the number of scholarship
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  years while in pursuit of a behavioral health graduate degree.
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  Second,
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  at least nine Colorado facilities that provide therapy for children with autism
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  have closed in the last 18 months.
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  Jumpstart Autism Center in Englewood is one of the latest agencies to close.
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  It had over 40 clients attending its day long behavioral health program.
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  70% of them were on Medicaid. However,
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  the state's Medicaid reimbursement rates were not enough for the agency to
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  continue. Other closures include Kadian and Hope Bridge.
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  Third Behavioral Healthcare Startup Neuro Flow is acquiring Capital Solution
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  Design.
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  C S D is the parent company of Behavioral Health Lab and B Hhl Touch,
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  which is a technology infrastructure provider for the VA department.
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  V H L has partnered with over 50 public and private healthcare facilities.
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  It's been used by the VA for over 15 years.
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  With this acquisition flow will expand into Washington DC as well as foreign
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  partnerships with federal government and in the veteran space.
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