2025 Fast Facts Behavioral Health Infographic. Defining Behavioral Health. Behavioral health conditions included both mental illness and substance use disorders. Specialty behavioral health hospitals, as well as community hospitals with behavioral health services, provide unique treatment programs to meet the health needs of patients with behavioral health conditions.

Fast Facts: Behavioral Health 2025 Infographic

A new Fast Facts infographic on behavioral health provides statistics on the number of psychiatric and other behavioral health hospitals and hospital services in the U.S. Included is trend data on hospitals providing psychiatric screenings and on hospitals that are consulting/liaising behavioral health care with acute inpatient care, emergency services, extended care, or primary care services.

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Fast Facts Behavioral Health 2025 Infographic. Defining Behavioral Health. Behavioral health conditions included both mental illness and substance use disorders. Specialty behavioral health hospitals, as well as community hospitals with behavioral health services, provide unique treatment programs to meet the health needs of patients with behavioral health conditions. 662: Number of specialty behavioral health hospitals in the U.S. in 2023. 11% of all hospitals were speciality behavioral health hospitals. 26: Increase in number of behavioral health hospitals since 2029. U.S. specialty behavioral health hospitals, 2023: Psychiatric 89% (N=92); Children's psychiatric 6% (N=42); Substance use disorder 4% (N=24); Intellectual disabilities 1% (N=4). Community hospitals provide a variety of psychiatric health services, 2023: Inpatient 30%; Outpatient 31%; Intensive outpatient 15%; Emergency 38%; Partial hospitalization 12%; Crisis prevention 28%; Geriatric 17%; Pediatric 11%; Prenatal and postpartum 12%; Social and community 12%; Suicide prevention 31%; Education services 25%; Medicated assisted treatment for opioid use disorder 20%; Medicated assisted treatment for other substance abuse disorders 17%; Consultation/liaison services 42%.

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