{"id":625937,"date":"2026-05-06T01:44:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625937\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:44:29","slug":"mental-health-care-access-in-nebraska-surges-over-last-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625937\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health care access in Nebraska surges over last decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) &#8211; A new report shows access to mental health care in Nebraska surged over the last decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Researchers at UNMC found a nearly 50% jump in licensed behavioral health providers statewide since 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This includes careers like psychiatry and independent therapists along with drug and alcohol counselors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">These gains aren\u2019t just focused in cities like Omaha and Lincoln either. The study found a 24% increase in rural practitioners as well.<\/p>\n<p>Work not over<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The researchers emphasize the work is not over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They found many patients still struggle with provider shortages and long wait times for care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They also found training programs are primarily based in Omaha and Lincoln, which could contribute to more graduates clumping around the state\u2019s largest cities.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WOWT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) &#8211; A new report shows access to mental health care in Nebraska surged over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[5867,3860,685,97,252,9383,259,260,2806,25924,1728,2122,270973],"class_list":["post-625937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-alcohol","tag-counseling","tag-drug","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-lincoln","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-nebraska","tag-omaha","tag-research","tag-training","tag-wait-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}