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Business Briefs: Recovery Centers of America, Discovery Behavioral Health, Acadia, Tufts Medicine
Recovery Centers of America Appoints 2 Executives
Recovery Centers of America (RCA) announced on Tuesday that it has appointed 2 executives to its leadership team. Hyong Un, MD, has been named RCA’s new chief medical officer, and Peter Vernig, PhD, has been appointed vice president of mental health services.
Dr Un previously served as chief psychiatric officer for Aetna/CVS, where he led the creation of a behavioral health program for the insurer’s more than 1 million mental health providers. With RCA, Dr Un will lead development and implementation of the organization’s integrated behavioral health strategy, including an expansion into mental health services designed for patients with a mental health condition primary diagnosis. He will also oversee RCA’s inpatient and outpatient services for patients with a primary substance use disorder (SUD) diagnosis.
Dr Vernig previously served as chief clinical officer at Friends Hospital in Philadelphia, the nation’s oldest private psychiatric hospital. As vice president of mental health services for RCA, he will oversee the expansion of mental healthcare across the organization, including outpatient, inpatient, and digital health.
Discovery Behavioral Health Adds Programs in California, Washington
Discovery Behavioral Health, which operates a national network of mental health, substance use, and eating disorder treatment centers, recently announced the launch of DiscoveryMD locations in West Los Angeles, Califorinia, and Tacoma, Washington.
DiscoveryMD offers medical solutions to individuals with treatment-resistant chronic mood and addiction disorders. Its service offerings include medication management, transcranial magnetic stimulation, ketamine administration, and medical addiction support in combination with individual and group therapy sessions. The DiscoveryMD services add a medical and long-term care component to the Discovery’s acute residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs. DiscoveryMD also includes a telehealth component for therapy, medication management, assessment, and referrals.
Acadia, Tufts Medicine to Build Inpatient Facility in Massachusetts
Tufts Medicine, a Massachusetts-based health system, and Acadia Healthcare, have announced the formation of a joint venture to build a 144-bed inpatient behavioral health facility on the site of the former Malden Hospital in Malden, Massachusetts. The $65 million facility will treat patients of all ages in the Greater Boston area.
As part of the project, MelroseWakefield Hospital and Lawrence Memorial Hospital will consolidate their inpatient behavioral health services at the new facility. The partnership will look to augment existing services through the development of care delivery models to better integrate behavioral health services.
The new hospital will provide inpatient and intensive outpatient behavioral healthcare programs. The building will have a smaller footprint than the former Malden Hospital, and the project will set aside 9 acres for conservation and open space.
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