Legal frameworks that only regulate formal psychiatric facilities are written for a system the majority will not use.

The OSH Museum of Mental Health in Salem pulls back the curtain on a chapter of American healthcare that most of us would prefer to skip over entirely. The Kirkbride Building stands proud in Salem, a ...

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Bridgewater is the nation’s only forensic psychiatric facility run by a corrections department, rather than a state mental ...

The OSH Museum of Mental Health in Salem stands as a powerful reminder of a past we’d rather forget, housed in a building that once witnessed both humanity’s compassion and its cruelty. The Kirkbride ...

The Mental Health Project is a Seattle Times initiative focused on covering mental and behavioral health issues. It is funded by Ballmer Group, a national organization focused on economic mobility for ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The Georgia Senate voted 49-1 Friday to approve the amended state budget, including a late addition to spend $409 million building a 300-bed forensic mental health ...

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Ten of the 51 psychiatric hospitals, in the cities of Xiangyang and Yichang in Hubei Province in central China, under investigation for mental health insurance fraud, were found to have engaged in ...

North Carolina’s three state-run psychiatric hospitals — Cherry, Central Regional and Broughton — serve about 570 patients each day. But hundreds more who need inpatient treatment wait weeks — even ...