Many mentally ill patients are admitted to hospital emergency rooms and often stay in the ER for several days or longer before they are transferred to a psychiatric unit or hospital, according to an ...

The share of people with severe mental illness in state psychiatric hospitals accused of serious crimes has risen steeply. The shift has all but halted the possibility of care before a catastrophic ...

New state website supports longstanding complaints that hospitals have become a stopgap for holes in the Oregon mental health system. FILE - Patients fill in their answers to the prompt, “I dream to ...

City officials are looking to develop facilities other than jails to offer specialty medical care for inmates with medical or mental health issues, according to the Intelligencer. 1. The city’s ...

SEATTLE — Garrett Merlino was in the midst of a severe mental health crisis when Seattle police encountered him two years ago at a West Seattle home. Body camera footage shows him becoming combative ...

Condemned as evil, mental hospitals closed, leading to fragmented system. Dec. 20, 2012— -- It took filmmaker Lucy Winer several decades to come to terms with having been locked up in a mental ...