SPENCER, Iowa — An Iowa hospital is a holdout on behalf of people going through mental health crises. The facility’s leaders have pledged not to shutter their inpatient psychiatric unit, as ...

The mental health unit operates 24/7, requiring the staffing of professionals for all three shifts,” Heywood Hospital co-CEO Rozanna Penney said in the press release.

During the peak of the pandemic in 2020, Heywood Hospital in Gardner offered doctors and therapists a $50,000 sign-on bonus to work in its mental health unit. “We still couldn't get enough clinicians, ...