In late 2022, Erin, a 43-year-old from Pennsylvania, agreed to spend six weeks in a psychiatric ward, getting intensive ...

Virginia’s 2014 “bed of last resort” law requires state psychiatric hospitals to admit patients in a mental health crisis if private facilities will not take them in. Temporary detention orders, which ...

MILFORD, Michigan (WXYZ) — A local couple says they sent their son to a crisis center for help. But then they say he was transferred to a psychiatric hospital ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: This evening at 6 o'clock, there will be a public hearing on the closure of an inpatient psychiatric ward in Central Minnesota. Lakewood ...

On June 1, a beautiful Sunday evening, a frightening incident occurred at Nuremberg, Germany’s North Hospital (Nordklinikum): a 19-year-old patient was injured by police gunfire in the clinic’s ...

A mental health provider has had its rating downgraded to "inadequate" after an inspection found "unacceptable" failings. Two patients told Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors they would prefer ...

More than 11 years after the deaths of two patients at Palmerston North Hospital's mental health ward triggered damning reviews into the facility, a replacement has opened.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — In the courtyard of a psychiatric ward in Mali’s capital, a small group of patients acts out scenes of a village dispute to the beat of a djembe, a traditional West African drum.

A coronial inquest will be held into a "cluster" of three patient suicides inside the secure mental health wards of a major ...