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For-profit corporations are buying up more psychiatric hospitals. Some flout federal law with scarce repercussions.

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Rolling Out

Mental health questions that drove physicians to suicide

For decades, the health care system has operated under the cruel irony that the people dedicated to healing others were being punished for seeking healing themselves. Doctors, nurses, and health care ...

As tougher psychiatric hospital staffing standards take effect, workers warn reforms are being undermined

California enacted historic minimum staffing requirements for psychiatric hospitals Monday. Caregivers applauded the reforms, ...
HealthLeaders Media

The Exec: How to Boost Care Quality and Patient Safety at Psychiatric Hospitals

At psychiatric hospitals, care quality and patient safety are closely associated with each other, this new CMO says.
HealthLeaders Media

For-Profit Companies Open Psychiatric Hospitals in Areas Clamoring for Care

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 investors ...

NC House Democrats propose spending $1.2 billion for mental health, courts and juvenile justice package

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — As North Carolina lawmakers in the General Assembly search for ways to address the intersection of ...
Psychology Today

Five Historic American Mental Hospitals

Mental hospitals have played a role of paramount importance in the history of American psychiatry, dating back to the mid-18th century when the Quakers made the first organized attempt to care for the ...
The Advocate

There's a crisis in Louisiana's jails: 'We have become the mental health institutions for the state'

Henry Gaymon speaks quickly, racing through the many stages of his troubled past, jumping back and forth between time spent in school, jail and mental institutions. One thing is clear: Living a normal ...