Mental hospitals and psych wards provide specialized care for individuals with severe mental health issues, offering treatment, support, and a safe environment.

Mental health hospitals in charge of violent criminals allow biologically male patients who 'self identify' as women to be placed on female wards.

Momentum picked up in the 1950s and ’60s as new drugs were released to treat mental illness and figures such as French philosopher Michel Foucault and novelist Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over ...

Most others who formerly would have been treated at state mental hospitals before the decades of “deinstitutionalization” beginning in the 1960s now live with their families, in private care ...

At present, there are 10 times as many people with mental illnesses in jails and prisons than in state psychiatric hospitals. In other words, we’ve substituted jails for treatment facilities ...

Back in the 1950s, America locked up too many people in psychiatric hospitals with shocking and deplorable conditions. We tried to correct for that, with an eye toward providing services in the ...

At one time, that drop was intentional, part of a movement away from locking people up in state-run mental hospitals. But the intended fix, local homelike centers, hasn't filled the void.

Hospitals’ mental health units rely heavily on Medicaid. Deep cuts could spark more closures : Shots - Health News Patients seeking mental health care are more likely to be on Medicaid than ...

Mumbai: Less than 4,000 complaints were lodged with the eight Mental Health Review Boards (MHRBs) set up by the state health department in November 2021 under the mandate of the Mental Healthcare ...

Although the number of private beds is small – about 3,658 are located statewide in these standalone hospitals – 80% of Texas inpatient Medicaid claims for mental health and substance use ...

Gov. Maura Healey moved to close two mental health hospitals in Canton and Pocasset and lay off half of the Department of Mental Health’s case managers in an effort to cut down costs and balance ...

Closure of two mental health hospitals to affect services in Kansas City’s Northland. Updated: 6:33 PM CDT Sep 16, 2024 Editorial Standards ...