Behavioral Health Business September 17, 2024
Behavioral health providers are increasingly expanding care continuums to include teenagers and meet the growing need for age-specific care. Virtual behavioral health provider Brightside Health is the latest to do so.
Announced Tuesday, its expansion into care options for teens aims to address what Brad Kittredge, founder and CEO of Brightside, calls a “teen mental health pandemic.” The strategic expansion is also to provide more value to Brightside’s health system and payer partners.
“The need is obvious from a clinical standpoint,” Kittredge told Behavioral Health Business. “We know that. We hear all the time and we get asked, ‘Will you please support teens?’ We knew that the time was right to lean into it. The reason it took us until...
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