A program that sends health professionals, instead of police officers, to respond to 911 calls about people in mental ...

Nurses graduating from UC take on one of the biggest challenges facing our state: A shortage of clinicians that makes it too ...

Carey Hutchison laid on the floor, curled into a ball and sobbed. “I’m trapped in hell,” she told her fiance. The then ...

Mental health advocates met at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing Wednesday in hopes of highlighting the needs of patients for ...

Carilion Clinic opens a new emergency department at Roanoke Memorial, featuring 125 beds, a pediatric trauma bay and a rooftop helipad.

The Precourt Healing Center, a new facility with 14 beds for adults and 14 for adolescents, has opened in Edwards. “These are ...

Medicaid covers healthcare for about 72 million Americans with low incomes or disabilities. Tiefenthaler predicts that if ...

This town’s hospital is a holdout on behalf of people going through mental health crises. The facility’s leaders have pledged ...

When Dr. Scott Zeller was head of the psychiatric emergency services at a California hospital 15 years ago he found that many psychiatric patients who came through the Emergency Department for care ...

A face, smell, or sound can trigger a flashback to past trauma for Julie. Her heart rate races, her body seizes up, and her ...

Recognize the prevalence of and the behaviors commonly associated with malingering within psychiatric emergency settings, and the lack of indication for inpatient psychiatric admission in the ...