Montana is famous for having high suicide rates. It would be cool if Montana were famous for being one of the states that ...

Cannabis may be legal in Ohio, but it is not benign. Smart, compassionate regulation should serve both public health and the ...

Michigan health officials report a dramatic increase in emergency incidents relating to the recreational use of nitrous oxide, also known as "laughing gas." ...

Key Takeaways 1 in 3 kids who go to an emergency room in mental health crisis wait at least 12 hours before they’re ...

Lawmakers, health officials and the governor have all said they’d like to revamp the involuntary treatment system. But many ...

NYU Langone is planning to build a new psychiatric emergency program at its Sunset Park hospital amid a state-led effort to increase treatment capacity for individuals in the throes of mental ...

As part of the settlement, WMCHealth will restore inpatient psychiatric beds that were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic and implement extensive reforms to better serve emergency room patients ...

Patients seeking psychiatric treatment sometimes had to wait days in Chesapeake Regional Medical Center’s emergency room for space at facilities across the state to open up, the hospital told ...

Getting help for a psychiatric crisis at a hospital emergency room is not wrong, but there are alternatives that may be safer and less overwhelming. A security guard in a Valley hospital emergency ...

EmPATH stands for emergency psychiatry assessment, treatment, and healing. An emergency room for mental health is the first in the DMV. Its main focus is de-escalating and stabilizing patients ...

Patients seen at the psychiatric emergency room can be admitted to the MetroHealth Behavioral Health Hospital if they are over 18, she said. Emergency room patients also can be referred to other ...

For Dr. Lee, behavioral health was more of a calling than a career as he helped thousands of patients through dark times in private practice and as director of the psychiatric emergency room and ...