Blackbird Health raises $17 million Series A to expand access to integrated, technology-backed youth mental health model
Summary
Leveraging an integrated, virtual and in-person model that includes a groundbreaking approach to diagnosing and treating, its the only in-network mental health practice thats dedicated to achieving better outcomes more quickly by taking trial and error out of delivering high-quality mental healthcare.The original clinic behind Blackbird was founded in 2014 by Amy Edgar, APRN, CRNP, FNP-C, now serving as its Chief Clinical Officer, and then relaunched in 2021 when co-Founder Dr. Matt Keener, a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, joined the company. "Our multidisciplinary and data-driven approach not only empowers our patients and their families with important information that helps them understand their condition, but it also allows us to build trust and gets at the root causes - a characteristic that distinguishes us at a time when the need is great but the available resources are stretched thin. Blackbirds care model considers both how childrens brains develop over time and the impact that growth has on mental health, which enables targeted and lasting outcomes regardless of age. Additionally, across its patient population, Blackbirds "Understand-first" and integrated care approach results in a substantially lower use of medications and ED utilization while leveraging a broad range of treatments. Blackbird currently operates three brick-and-mortar clinics across the Mid-Atlantic region and has more than 40 providers that include board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrists, prescribing CRNPs, psychologists, therapists, speech pathologists and more.