Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recently opened Madera County acute psychiatric hospital was hit with two state penalties for putting patient’s into harm’s way, ...

Next year will be the twentieth anniversary of “Myers v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute,” a successful lawsuit against the state. Michael Perlin, who has been described as the Dean of Mental Health Law, ...

A critical inspection report into the mental health hospital comes as the NHS withdraws patients.

Alaska has a 125-year history of using the lowest bid to provide care for psychiatric patients who end up in a locked facility. The well-being and safety of the patients and their recovery have always ...

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