The News 5 Investigators have discovered you are waiting longer and longer in local emergency rooms. And it gets even worse ...

The constant alarms in a hospital can create a high-stress environment that can cause health care workers to become ...

When someone is having a mental health crisis — whether they’re thinking about suicide, acting erratically or experiencing hallucinations — they frequently end up in a hospital emergency department, ...

Thousands of people arrested each year in Texas are dealing with mental health issues. Some conditions can be treated with ...

More than 300 mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego have been on strike for seven weeks. Patients say it’s causing delays and challenges for access to therapy. More than 300 Kaiser ...

WMCHealth, the largest hospital system in the Hudson Valley, routinely discharged vulnerable mental health patients without adequate evaluation or stabilization measures and improperly kept inpatient ...

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 ...

When a patient suffering from a mental health crisis comes into Derby, Connecticut’s Griffin Hospital emergency department, their condition may vary. “People could just be really withdrawn. People ...

A successful transition to outpatient care is often thwarted by the lack of adequate post-hospitalization treatment programs ...

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, ...

More young people experiencing a psychiatric emergency began showing up in the emergency department of a Boston hospital with ...