As Demand for Behavioral Health Services Surges, Atlanta’s Acuity Raises $1.5M to Bring AI-Powered Clinical Support to Hospitals

April 7, 2025

The sheer number of Americans seeking out mental, behavioral, and psychiatric health support just keeps rising. And yet, the workforce and the technology needed just isn’t keeping pace, says Atlanta entrepreneur Jim Szyperski...

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Acuity Launches First Behavioral Health Operations Intelligence Platform and Standard for Inpatient Psychiatric Care

April 1, 2025
Acuity Behavioral Health today announced its official launch, pioneering a new category in healthcare: Behavioral Health Operations Intelligence (BHOI). Built in collaboration with 11 leading health systems, including Yale New Haven Health, Acuity's platform provides a real-time, AI-driven framework for standardizing, measuring, and optimizing inpatient psychiatric care-a field long plagued by inefficiencies, staffing shortages, and a lack of clinical standards...

Valor Ventures Leads Seed Financing for Acuity Behavioral Health 

February 18, 2025
 Acuity Behavioral Health (Acuity) has successfully secured seed financing to accelerate its growth and innovation, as well as support and expand Acuity's ongoing mission to improve the quality of care in inpatient psychiatric and behavioral healthcare.. 

Acuity Behavioral Health to Examine Clinical Impact of the BHAI on Yale New Haven Health's Inpatient Psychiatric Operations, Workflows and Outcomes

February 5, 2025
 We are delighted to announce the implementation of our Behavioral Health Acuity Index (BHAI) at Yale New Haven Health. In collaboration with the incredible team at Yale New Haven, we will launch the next study phase of our ongoing validation of the BHAI as the industry standard measurement of patient acuity for inpatient psychiatric facilities. Another big step to further our mission to better the care and safety of patients, and the heroic nurses and staff who treat them. 

Clinical Validation of our Behavioral Health Acuity Index 

September 9, 2024
 The clinical validation of our Behavioral Health Acuity Index (NEAT or BHAI) is a major milestone in our mission to fix a failing state of behavioral healthcare operations. Thank you to our health system design and equity partners who have helped us get here.

Tanner Health and Healthliant Ventures Partner With Acuity Behavioral Health for Inpatient Operations
June 11, 2024
Tanner Health, Healthliant Ventures and Acuity Behavioral Health announced they have entered into an agreement for Tanner to deploy Acuity’s Behavioral Health Acuity Index (BHAI) product, a patient acuity and workload measurement solution, for their 92-bed Willowbrooke at Tanner in-patient psychiatric facility located in Villa Rica, Georgia.

Acuity Behavioral Health Completes Initial Product Validation
May 13, 2024
Acuity Behavioral Health’s proprietary patient acuity and workload measurement model, the BHAI, is validated for system accuracy and nurse staffing

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Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services deploys Acuity Behavioral Health’s Patient Acuity Solution
July 12, 2023
Software company implements proprietary patient acuity and workload measurement solution at Pine Rest for use in their inpatient psychiatric units.

Acuity Behavioral Health and Cone Health enter into a Multi-Year License Agreement
May 31, 2023
Software company implements proprietary patient acuity and workload measurement solution at Cone Health for use in their inpatient psychiatric units.