The construction of the new $947 million Western State Hospital facility is charging ahead and on track for completion, ...

Gov. Bob Ferguson says Washington’s mental health system faces rising demand and funding pressures after his four-day visit ...

HealthPartners made its third request in a decade to expand the trauma center, even as other hospitals contract.

The legacy of Kings Park Psychiatric Center still towers at Nissequogue River State Park, where the wheels of progress have ...

Custer County leaders are making their case for why a proposed state mental hospital should be built in Miles City, citing ...

The study found the mentally ill are swept up by low-level criminal offenses and kept in state hospitals too long, confirming ...

At the end of last year, 30 defendants from New Orleans were awaiting transfer to the hospital. By mid-October, 33 remained caught in the backlog, confined in a jail that a federal judge has ruled ...

But efforts to replace the old facility — a cramped, aging building from the 1970s that was planned by an architect who designed prisons — appear to have hit a roadblock. An architectural firm hired ...

Ohio is planning a new mental health hospital to meet the need for psychiatric beds. Trotwood leaders are against the ...

The man accused of assaulting and murdering a patient in 2024 at Merit Health in Jackson will receive further mental ...

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Pennsylvania’s competency system is in crisis, according to a recent state-backed study. The state’s competency restoration system is part of the criminal justice process. If someone is charged with ...