Caregivers, medical professionals and family members predict serious consequences for seniors suffering severe neurological ...

Mental health; Locked in a mental health unit hundreds of miles from home, she begged to leave - but never made it out Chris Slater examines the desperately sad case of Lauren Bridges following an ...

Filmmakers and a featured staff therapist discuss a documentary by HBO, which highlighted an innovation in providing ...

In 1977 I was working on the psychiatry unit at Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx. I was ready for the next admission but could not find the patient on my locked unit nor the hall between the other ...

While waiting for less-intensive care, many of these psychiatric patients are held in locked units with little sunlight and freedom of movement, noted Dr. Eduardo Colon, chief of psychiatry at HCMC.

Santa Barbara County will reopen its crisis stabilization unit as a “locked” facility in May, adding eight beds for acute mental health treatment in Santa Barbara. When it was previously open ...

L.A. General's inpatient psychiatric unit has restrained patients at a higher rate than in any other in California, a Times analysis has found.

The two-episode “One South: Portrait of a Psych Unit” will debut its first part on June 25 followed by part two on June 26, TheWrap has exclusively learned. Both parts will debut at 9 p.m. ET/PT.