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Grinnell, Iowa — A for-profit company has proposed turning a boarded-up former nursing home here into a psychiatric hospital, joining a national trend toward having such hospitals owned by ...
WMCHealth, the largest hospital system in the Hudson Valley ... or stabilization measures and improperly kept inpatient psychiatric beds closed for years despite a growing need for those services ...
A security guard working at a New Hampshire psychiatric hospital was fatally shot Friday and a suspect was shot dead by a state police trooper assigned to the facility, authorities say.
The District’s only for-profit psychiatric hospital is rife with incidents of abuse and neglect, leaving many patients traumatized and distrustful of the mental health system, according to a ...
A Wisconsin judge has agreed to release “Slender Man” stabber Morgan Geyser from a psychiatric hospital despite desperate last-minute efforts by health officials to keep her committed.
A man was wrongly imprisoned on a psychiatric ward for a year when they were just 15 years old. Banning Lyon revealed their experiences from the year-long hospital stay in his upcoming book ...
This rendering shows what the day room for acute patients at Sedgwick County’s psychiatric hospital could look like. Courtesy of Pulse Design Group and Tessere The state-run psychiatric hospital ...
Come quickly, the Columbus Police sergeant urged, patients are in danger. The psychiatric hospital on the city’s east side may need to be shut down, he warned Ohio regulators. The officer ...
A hypothetical patient arrives at the emergency department of South Shore Hospital in Weymouth but requires treatment at a psychiatric hospital. A bed opens up in Devens. The 55-mile trek between ...
Lawmakers broke ground this afternoon on the South Central Kansas psychiatric hospital. Left to right, Sedgwick County Commissioner Ryan Baty, KDADS secretary Laura Howard, Gov. Laura Kelly and ...
State officials said the situation at New Hampshire Hospital, a state psychiatric facility in Concord, had been “contained.” The motive for the shooting remained unclear. By Eduardo Medina A ...