psychiatric hospitals

For decades, hospitals have strained to accommodate patients in psychiatric crisis in emergency rooms. The horror stories of failure abound:Patients…

The evaporation of long-term psychiatric facilities in the U.S. has escalated over the past decade, sparked by a trend toward deinstitutionalization of mental health patients in the 1950s and '60s.

Two competitors are suing to stop a new psychiatric hospital in Brevard County from being built.A judge said this week that he wants a hearing on the case…