Since Mahan rolled out his "Responsibility to Shelter" policy in March, Santa Clara County officials and a former judge have pushed back on the plan that citing homeless people for trespassing ...

Vermont Hospitals Have Highest Nurse Turnover Rate, Says Bill Sponsor. The measure is in response to an uptick in assaults on nurses and hospital staff in recent years. A report released last year ...

Hochul is also continuing with her expansion of state-run psychiatric institutions with the inclusion of $160 million for additional so-called “forensic” beds – high security wards reserved ...

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And a writer in her 50s was placed in a secure mental health facility against her will following allegations, vehemently denied by the woman, that she had planned to take her own life.

Amid calls to make the transit system safer, her mission is to treat people with severe mental illness whom many riders have come to fear.

Those responsibilities include responding to emergency mental health calls, operating so-called co-response teams – police paired with nurses and outreach workers – to conduct street outreach ...

Assessing risk is critical to the development of a workable response plan. Reaction and survival plans will also be an important part of type-3. Type 4: Worker vs. Significant Other ...

For over 60 years Dartmouth Health’s Department of Psychiatry has been providing psychiatric care to our state’s youth. In July 2024, we began applying that expertise at Hampstead Hospital, offering ...