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.

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 ...

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, ...