MIDDLETOWN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 14, 2025--
PursueCare, a virtual clinic for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, will participate in a panel exploring partnerships and strategies for integrated, whole-person care models in behavioral health at the 2025 Behavioral Health Business (BHB) Addiction Treatment Forum in Chicago, Ill., on July 17, 2025, at Convene (311 W Monroe). The forum also spotlights current investment and operational trends shaping the addiction treatment industry.
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Nicholas Mercadante, Founder and CEO of PursueCare, will join the expert panel titled “Who’s at Quarterback? Ensuring Smooth SUD Handoffs and Building the Partnership Playbook,” slated for 11:30 a.m. CDT. Mercadante will discuss the critical importance of integrated care models and effective handoffs in SUD treatment, drawing on his experience leading a tech-enabled platform designed to meet patients where they are—with convenience, compassion, and clinical excellence.
As a former healthcare attorney turned entrepreneur, Mercadante founded PursueCare with a mission to dismantle barriers to addiction treatment by leveraging technology, innovative care delivery, and cross-sector partnerships. Under his leadership, PursueCare has become a leading voice in redefining how providers, payors, and care networks collaborate to treat SUDs holistically. “Everyone of us at PursueCare is committed to value-based care, our team is dedicated to serving patients in need and shaping industry standards around quality, accessibility, and equity.”
Innovation in Action: How PursueCare Is Transforming Addiction Treatment
PursueCare delivers comprehensive, virtual-first SUD care that bridges the gaps in access and continuity of care. Available across Connecticut, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, Ohio, and West Virginia, the platform offers:
Mercadante will share the virtual clinic’s approach to forging strong partnerships with health systems, employers, and value-based care organizations—offering seamless care coordination, real-time engagement, and outcome-driven models that empower both patients and partners. He’ll be joined by fellow industry pioneers Jamie Vinck, President of Meadows Behavioral Health; Beth Keeney, CEO of LifeSpring Health Systems; and Dr. Ayesha Appa, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
The BHB Forum will offer behavioral health professionals the opportunity to connect, collaborate, and learn from leaders and innovators across the industry. Attendees will include behavioral health professionals, investors, creators, and a range of vendors and service providers.
About PursueCare
PursueCare provides personalized virtual addiction treatment for individuals across states (CT, KY, MA, ME, OH, and WV). Our mission is to increase access to chronic care through telehealth. Patients engage with a multi-disciplinary team providing medical care, counseling, psychiatry, and pharmacy. FDA-authorized digital cognitive behavioral therapy, RESET ® and RESET-O ®, supports recovery 24/7. We accept private insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Learn more at www.pursuecare.com and www.reachforreset.com.
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Nick Mercadante is the Founder and CEO of PursueCare, a pioneering virtual health platform focused on delivering compassionate, personalized addiction treatment. Nick leads PursueCare’s mission to serve patients in underserved and remote communities, using innovative technology to provide private, comprehensive treatment to patients, and collaborative care programs with community treaters that lack resources to address SUD, AUD, and OUD. PursueCare has expanded services to thousands of patients across multiple states, establishing partnerships with health plans and health systems.
One U.S. service member was rescued and at least one was missing after two U.S. military planes went down in separate incidents including the first shoot-down since the war began nearly five weeks ago.
It was the first time U.S. aircraft have been downed in the conflict and came just two days after President Donald Trump said in a national address that the U.S. has “beaten and completely decimated Iran.”
One fighter jet was shot down in Iran, officials said. A U.S. crew member from that plane was rescued, but a second was missing, and a U.S. military search-and-rescue operation was underway.
Separately, Iranian state media said a U.S. A-10 attack aircraft crashed in the Persian Gulf after being struck by Iranian defense forces. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive military situation, said it was not clear if the aircraft crashed or was shot down.
The war now entering its sixth week is destabilizing economies around the world as Iran responds to the U.S. and Israeli attacks by targeting the Gulf region's energy infrastructure and tightening its grip on oil and natural gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.
Here is the latest:
U.S. and Israeli warplanes continued to pound Iran Saturday, hitting several targets including a petrochemical facility, Iranian media reported.
Iran's official English-language newspaper Tehran Times reported that an airstrike hit a facility belonging to Iran’s Agriculture Ministry in the western city of Mehran.
The newspaper said another air raid struck Mahshahr Special Petrochemical Zone in the southwestern Khuzestan province.
The semiofficial Fars news agency reported several explosions heard late Saturday morning in the facility.
Mehr, another semiofficial news agency, reported that the strikes hit four companies within the zone.
Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf made the veiled threat in a social media post late Friday, asking about how busy oil tanker and container ship traffic is through the strait.
The 20-mile (32-kilometer) strait links the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean and is one of the busiest chokepoints in global trade, with more than a tenth of seaborne global oil and a quarter of container ships passing through it.
Iran has already greatly disrupted the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, sending fuel prices skyrocketing and jolting the world economy.
Disrupting transit through the Bab el-Madeb would force shipping firms to route their vessels around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, further hitting prices.
Israel’s rescue services said Saturday the man sustained glass shrapnel wounds after an Iranian missile hit the central city of Bnei Brak.
It wasn't clear if the glass shrapnel was caused by a direct strike or falling debris from an intercepted missile.
Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue services said it was taking the man to the hospital.
The Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency said Saturday that the two men who were hanged belonged to the Iranian exile group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq.
The agency said Abul-Hassan Montazer and Vahid Bani-Amirian were convicted of “being members of a terrorist group.”
This brings to six the total number of MEK members executed since the start of the war.
Activists and rights groups say Iran routinely holds closed-door trials in which defendants are unable to challenge the accusations they face.
The Israeli military said on Saturday that its air force struck ballistic and and anti-aircraft missile storage sites in Tehran.
It said the strikes a day earlier included weapons manufacture sites as well as military research and development facilities in the Iranian capital.
It said the strikes are part of an ongoing phase to increase damage to Iran's “core systems and foundations.”
Authorities in Dubai said the facades of two buildings were damaged by debris from intercepted drones, including one belonging to U.S. tech firm Oracle. No injuries were reported.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has threatened to attack Oracle and 17 other U.S. companies after accusing them of being involved in “terrorist espionage” operations in Iran.
Previous Iranian drone strikes caused damage to three Amazon Web Services facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
As of Friday, 247 of the wounded were Army soldiers, 63 were Navy sailors, 19 were Marines and 36 were Air Force airmen, according to Pentagon data available online.
It is unclear if the data includes any of the service members involved in the downing of two combat aircraft reported Friday.
Most of the wounded — 200 — were also mid to senior enlisted troops, 85 were officers and 80 were junior enlisted service members.
The current death toll remains at 13 service members killed in combat.
Palestinian Muslims attend Friday prayers outside Jerusalem's Old City due to restrictions linked to the Iran war, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Tamara and her sister Amal color pictures on the floor as their parents, Sara and Ahmed, who fled their village of Khiyam in southern Lebanon due to Israeli bombardment, sit inside a tent used as a shelter in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Mohammad Qubaisi, 53, with burn wounds from an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon undergoes surgery by Dr. Mohammed Ziara, left, and his team, at the Sidon Government Hospital in Sidon, Lebanon, Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A bridge struck by U.S. airstrikes on Thursday is seen in the town of Karaj, west of Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
FILE - An F-15E Strike Eagle turns toward the Panamint range over Death Valley National Park, Calif., on Feb. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
