Patients were restrained, verbally abused and locked in seclusion for weeks, prompting criminal charges and resignations.

Senate Bill 44 is working its way through committees in the Alaska Legislature. I strongly suggest that the senators who are sponsoring the bill talk with adolescents in locked psychiatric facilities ...

SPOKANE, Washington (InvestigateWest) — A 12-year-old girl died by suicide this month after workers say she was left unsupervised at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, where she was waiting for a ...

Medical professionals and family members pleaded with UC San Diego Health Tuesday to scrap plans to close its 14-bed behavioral health unit for seniors at UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest. But though ...

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, ...

Dignitaries walked the halls of the county’s newest psychiatric hospital Thursday, taking in the design of the free-standing, ...

A patient in a cluster of suicides at a Queensland hospital mental health unit carried razor blades into the ward without detection, locked herself in a bathroom and died as staff scrambled to find ...

Luke Bergmann, the man whose vision of a more holistic mental health care system bridged political ideology on the county Board of Supervisors, has tendered his resignation, though he will remain on ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is ...