Amarillo breaks ground on psychiatric hospital, part of the state’s $1.5B investment in mental health The facility will bring mental health resources closer to the largely rural region that’s ...

Help stop state mental hospital buildings calamity. Cameron J. Moylan Jan 26, 2016 ... These pre-1920's buildings were so well-constructed, and so good looking, ...

The new state hospital has space for nearly 40 additional beds, and has begun a study to determine what types of patients ...

The State of Texas will be operating the new psychiatric hospital in Dallas without UT Southwestern as a partner, according to the state’s health and human services department. After years of ...

The hospital in Amarillo is one of seven new state psychiatric hospital projects by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Lawmakers approved spending $1.5 billion in 2023 for the ...

Ex-mental health commissioner King Davis (left) leads the Friends of Central State group. Dr. Ronald Forbes, the hospital’s first Black medical director, serves as vice chairman.

The new hospital, which the General Assembly approved last year, will include a 111-bed forensic unit for patients with criminal charges who require psychiatric evaluation and rehabilitation.

Texas breaks ground on the first state-run psychiatric hospital in the Panhandle set to open in Amarillo in 2027 with $159 million in state funding. Skip Navigation. Share on Facebook; ...

Virginia’s mental health system is suffering a double blow from the resignations of the director of the state’s largest psychiatric hospital and the deputy director of forensic services for people ...

For a large number of Indiana’s rural residents, access to specialty care — specifically that for psychiatry and mental ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — A federal judge on Friday held Oregon’s state health agency and psychiatric hospital in contempt for failing to admit criminal defendants in need of mental health treatment to ...

U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mosman in 2022 set strict limits for how long and the types of patients that could stay at the state psychiatric hospitals in Salem and Junction City.