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Embark Behavioral Health Opens New Clinic in Colorado; Children's Hospital New Orleans Expands Behavioral Health Services · 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 daily industry news brief for May 9th. First,
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  embark Behavioral Health is opening its 19th clinic in Greenwood Village,
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  Colorado.
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  The clinic will offer a therapeutic day treatment program and an intensive
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  outpatient program. This will be Embarks first Colorado location.
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  It offers virtual therapy for residents of every state,
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  as well as in-person therapy for 15 states. Other than Colorado
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  Second,
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  virtual therapy is becoming more popular and many digital behavioral health
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  companies are completing significant financing rounds.
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  Digital Mental Health Company,
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  you will raised 30 million in series A financing.
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  UWI is aimed at college students.
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  Kaiser Permanente Ventures and Cigna Ventures participated in a 34 million
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  funding round for N O C D,
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  which is a company that offers virtual treatment for obsessive compulsive
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  disorder. Lastly,
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  C V S Health led up 25 million financing round for virtual therapy
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  company array behavioral care. Third Children's Hospital,
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  new Orleans is bolstering its behavioral health program.
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  The facility is adding three psychiatrists, four nurses,
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  and two psychologists to its staff.
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  This will help with the growing demand for adolescent behavioral health
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  services. It's also opening at center,
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  directed at the treatment and assessment of eating disorders.
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  Another new center focuses on trauma and aims at addressing youth who are
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  dealing with trauma and grief.
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  CH O was the only psychiatric program in the Gulf Coast region exclusively
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  dedicated to children and adolescents in crisis.
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  It routinely treats children in Louisiana and along the Gulf Coast.
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