Todd Archbold News Today

Like much of the country, adolescent mental health care needs are increasing in Minnesota. Todd Archbold, the CEO of PrairieCare, decided to expand his program to meet the demanding needs.

PrairieCare in Brooklyn Park added a new 30,000-square-foot expansion with 30 new inpatient mental health beds.

The healthcare system has added 30 inpatient psychiatric beds and is now poised to serve an additional 1,000 youth and young adults.

/PRNewswire/ -- In the midst of a national mental health crisis—one that includes more than a third of young adults with mental illness and nearly a third of...

The new matching system is one of several changes that have been taking place over the last few years to make Minnesota’s mental health care system more accessible and open to people around the state.

Minnesota adopted a mental health parity law in the mid-1990s. But decades later, access to care remains difficult due to a complex mix of provider shortages, wait times, insurance struggles and stigma.

/PRNewswire/ -- Newport Healthcare, a national network of evidence-based treatment programs for teens and young adults with primary mental health disorders,...

COVID-19 exacerbated a long-running increase in children seeking hospital care for mental disorders and state shortage of psychiatric beds.

Copy shortlink: Alison Yocom sobbed uncontrollably as she stumbled and collapsed on the living room floor of her south Minneapolis home. For 10 days, Yocom had pleaded with hospital staff to admit her 17-year-old son to a psychiatric unit where he could receive treatment for his suicidal depression and anxiety. But for 10 days, she watched in frustration as he languished on a metal gurney in a windowless room of a hospital emergency room, where his condition worsened to ...