Criminal defendants with mental health conditions can be made to wait in jail for weeks at a time before being admitted to ...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

WMCHealth, the largest hospital system in the Hudson Valley, routinely discharged vulnerable mental health patients without adequate evaluation or stabilization measures and improperly kept ...

MHA Government Relations Manager Tayler Alpert said last year, Michigan hospitals saw a total of 1.2 million emergency room ...

Former Virginia Mental Health Commissioner King Davis, a featured speaker, was struck by the absence of another state mental institution, now known as Central State Hospital near Petersburg.

A woman experiencing delusions sat in Montana’s Cascade County jail for 125 days while waiting for a bed at the state psychiatric hospital. A man with schizophrenia spent 100 days last year in ...

The state of Kansas operates two psychiatric care facilities. On the OSH campus are two independently operating hospitals, the Osawatomie State Hospital and Adair Acute Care (AAC). Over four years ...

Unlike patients at general hospitals’ psychiatric wards, those at state hospitals often ... As a result, today’s state hospital patients wander small, fenced-in wards with little meaningful activity, ...

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) broke ground Tuesday for a new facility to replace the current North Texas State Hospital in Wichita Falls. Governor Greg Abbott and the 88th ...

Perkins Hospital Center, a state-run, maximum-security psychiatric hospital, had his license suspended for a minimum of one year after he harassed Department of Health employees and was ...

Warrants state Folta allegedly shot a victim ... Folta reportedly made to staff at the Lighthouse Behavioral Hospital, a mental health clinic in the Conway area, as evidence in the case.