Five former patients at Southwood Psychiatric Hospital and their families are suing the facility in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court alleging abuse by either fellow patients or staff while they ...

Palomar Health received a $50 million state grant to help build a large mental health hospital on its main medical campus in ...

Mental health care in America has a long, complex history. Author Hannah Thurman explores the history of mental health care ...

A major project designed to add 120 beds for mental health care in north San Diego County has lost a $50 million state grant, making the project’s future uncertain. The California Department of ...

Washington County Mental Health Services plans to consolidate services, offering crisis care, intensive treatment and outpatient therapy.

Californians accused of crimes can receive mental health treatment rather than prison time under a 2018 law. Lawmakers are ...

Two Newark, Ohio, mental health and addiction treatment facilities will close on June 30. The closures are due to the loss of federal grants and changes in state funding structures. Spencer House for ...

Nursing homes have quietly become our nation's second-largest psychiatric institutional care setting—without the staff, ...

She needs help. I need water. So I don't know what you guys need to do to make this happen, but she needs to be someone who's going to hurt somebody or herself. *** mother's plea for help. Christy ...

A confidential report described a “culture of complacency” at Oregon’s only public psychiatric hospital. Federal ...

A KMBC 9 investigation found Timothy Beckmann spent more than five hours unresponsive inside the Jackson County Detention ...

Precision medicine in psychiatry represents a transformative shift towards individualized treatment strategies that consider genetic, environmental, and psychological factors affecting mental health.