The hospitals had been seeing an increase in emergency department visits over the last few years as the financial troubles ...

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

We are heartbroken,” Carly Kempf’s obituary begins. The 22-year-old died Feb. 13 following a stroke, her body whittled down by anorexia over the course of almost a decade. The death notice describes ...

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 ...

MHA Government Relations Manager Tayler Alpert said last year, Michigan hospitals saw a total of 1.2 million emergency room ...

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 ...