Business Briefs: Deal Puts Concert Health Services in Primary Care Setting

Behavioral health medical group Concert Health and AdventHealth, a faith-based health system with 50 hospital campuses in 9 states, have announced a partnership to treat patients with behavioral health needs in a primary care setting. The deal will allow patients of AdventHealth’s facilities in Tampa, Florida, and Hendersonville, North Carolina, to receive same-day care for behavioral health conditions.

The partnership is based on the Collaborative Care model, which identifies and treats conditions such as anxiety and depression in a primary care setting. AdventHealth will embed screenings into its existing healthcare touch points and track patient outcomes. Patients connected with Concert Health clinicians will receive treatment through phone or video-based visits. Concert Health’s behavioral care managers and psychiatrists will work with Advent Health’s primary care and advanced practice providers to identify behavioral health conditions, develop care plans, review patient progress and adjust care as needed.

“Our providers are seeing patients of all ages who are struggling with anxiety and depression and often don’t know where to turn. For some, there is a stigma associated with seeking help, for others there can be barriers to access,” Penny Johnson, president/CEO for the Southwest Region of AdventHealth and executive sponsor of the health system’s behavioral health initiative in the outpatient setting, said in a news release. “This model is a clinically proven way to integrate behavioral health into primary care to improve behavioral health screening, access and outcomes for our patients.”

Monte Nido & Associates finalizes deal for Walden Behavioral Care

Monte Nido & Associates announced on Monday that it has completed an acquisition of Waltham, Massachusetts-based Walden Behavioral Care, a provider of inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient eating disorder programs in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Georgia.

The deal grows Monte Nido & Affiliates’ portfolio to 44 facilities in 13 states and expands Monte Nido’s inpatient service offerings. As part of the transaction, Monte Nido is bringing on Walden founder and CEO Stuart Korman, PhD, as its chief strategy officer.

Tempest expands scholarship program for underserved communities

Tempest, a New York-based provider of treatment for alcohol use disorder, announced that over the next 2 years, it will provide more than 10,000 months of membership to the company’s digital alcohol recovery program for individuals from LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities. Actor, author and advocate Nico Tortorella joins the company as its first scholarship chairperson.

Tempest has had a scholarship program since it launched as Hip Sobriety in 2014. In 2020, Tempest launched a membership model amid the pandemic, and more than 400 individuals have since received scholarships to gain access to treatment.

Tempest is partnering with not-for-profit organizations to identify those most likely to benefit from memberships. Santana’s Foundation, which was founded by a Tempest recovery coach, is among the first organizations to sign on.