The health insurance status of children is linked to whether they are admitted or transferred to a hospital after presenting to the emergency department with a mental health disorder, according to a ...

MADISON (WKOW) --- UnityPoint Health-Meriter reports it is now seeing reduced wait times for hospital admission from emergency rooms thanks to the development of its Admission Unit. It's part of a ...

The Seattle Times reports that Pierce County Superior Court Commissioner Craig Adams posed the option to Strange because a patient has been waiting months to be detained at the state psychiatric ...

When a friend said their 15-year-old son was at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, George and Gifty Coleman desperately tried to find out if it was true. But the ER desk at the New Brunswick ...

The Oregon State Hospital has been in contempt of a court order for more than a month as it has failed to admit people with significant mental illnesses who need long-term treatment. Statewide, 18 ...

Hospital bosses have admitted they can't rule out another patient dying in similar circumstances to those of beloved grandmother Pat Dawson. During her time in the over-stretched A&E department at the ...

More than 70 people in Oregon jails who need mental health treatment are waiting for Oregon State Hospital beds. Now the state’s biggest disability advocacy group and public defenders are calling for ...

A New York hospital said on Thursday that it has agreed to admit and treat the British baby at the center of a life-and-death debate after European courts ruled that he could be removed from life ...