New safety standards aimed at limiting suicide risks have led to overhauls inside hospitals around the country, with psychiatric facilities and wards removing bathroom doors, stripping artwork from ...

Stigma and shame still surround psychiatric hospitalization — and for those of us with bipolar disorder, discharge can mean facing the world alone and unsupported. I have found that there is plenty of ...

The mother of a teenage girl who took her own life a few hours after being released from a Perth mental health ward says a series of systemic failures is responsible for her daughter's death.

The shortages mean that patients who enter an emergency room with an acute psychiatric crisis may wait days or weeks for a bed, inmates who qualify for psychiatric care may wait in jail for several ...

West Virginia University Health System’s Wheeling Hospital said Tuesday it’s working to acquire a children’s psychiatric hospital just a couple of miles away. The target is Orchard Park Hospital, a ...