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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 ...
Some of them were even built in the late 1800s back when Warm Springs was a luxury resort. These pre-1920's buildings were so well-constructed, and so good looking, that they were surely some of ...
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 ...
LUBBOCK — State officials broke ground Tuesday at the site of the future psychiatric hospital in Amarillo, bringing the Panhandle one step closer to inpatient mental health care. The hospital is ...
The new hospital, renamed Central State in 1894, operated as the only mental institution for Black people in Virginia until the end of racial segregation after passage of the Civil Rights Act 70 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
A Huntsville man charged with making threats against a Huntsville Fire Department station has been committed to the Alabama Department of Mental Health after a judge found his mental illness makes … ...
The state will spend $75 million moving more people with mental illness from jails to treatment facilities. “You’re not coming out better after three years at our jail,” said one sheriff.