Last year, I spoke with an Iowa mother who found her then-6-year-old son attempting to take his own life during a monthslong ...

At least eight other Iowa hospitals have stopped offering inpatient mental health care since 2007, forcing people in crisis to seek help in distant facilities. Spencer Hospital is one of the ...

SPENCER, Iowa — An Iowa hospital is a holdout on behalf of people going through mental health crises. The facility’s leaders have pledged not to shutter their inpatient psychiatric unit, as dozens of ...

State administrators are wrong when they say many patients at the state psychiatric hospital here could obtain similar services from private agencies in southern Iowa communities, mental-health ...

SPENCER, Iowa — This town's hospital is a holdout on behalf of people going through mental health crises. The facility's leaders have pledged not to shutter their inpatient psychiatric unit ...

TIPTON, Iowa (KCRG) - The Tipton girls track program has seven state team championships, but their last came in 2007. This week at the state meet may be their best shot to win a title since then.

The lawsuit argues Iowa HHS denied children struggling with mental illness “timely access to intensive community services, resulting in unnecessary institutionalization and harm,” as stated in ...

DES MOINES — Two state-run mental health treatment facilities closed ... action and attempt to fix this situation,” AFSCME Iowa Council 61 president Danny Homan said in a news release.

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Congress is considering billions in cuts to the Medicaid health insurance program, and it’s more ...

Community Hospital is marking Mental Health Awareness Month by highlighting its innovative community partnerships that have ...

TIPTON, Iowa - Tipton has reached a stronger position for economic development with three recent happenings. Tipton Community Development Director John Todd reported to the City Council Monday ...

A federal court granted final approval Friday to a settlement agreement in a lawsuit against the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services that will expand and improve mental health services ...