Behavioral Health Business January 29, 2024
GV, formerly Google Ventures, and Triple Aim, have invested in a new behavioral health provider, Guidelight, focused on intermediate levels of care.
The newly launched startup offers intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) and partial hospitalization programs (PHPs). IOPs and PHPs provide a step up from traditional outpatient behavioral health offerings and a step down from inpatient care.
This type of treatment can give patients needing more intensive treatment flexible options. Guidelight offers programs during the day and at night to accommodate work and family schedules.
“Whenever you go inpatient, you’re kind of taken away from your life. In a way, you’re taken away from a lot of the stressors that brought you to the hospital,” Dr. Andy Cruz, chief medical officer...