Iowa nonprofits that provide support and services to Iowans with complex mental health challenges say they are alarmed and ...

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.

Central State Hospital was founded in 1870 as the Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored ... The COVID-19 pandemic initially slowed admissions to the state’s overcrowded mental hospitals, ...

Originally opened in 1870 as the first psychiatric asylum exclusively for Black citizens, Central State has metamorphosized into a muti-faceted mental-health center. In addition to psychiatric ...

When a court questions whether a person accused of a crime is mentally fit to stand trial, they’re referred for a mental ...

Four changes coming to health care in Rhode Island; and the push for a statue to honor Westerly's running legend "Tarzan" ...

New Central State Hospital in Dinwiddie County celebrates topping ceremony as construction progresses on the 460,000-square-foot facility designed to replace the 150-year-old current hospital.

Construction underway on new state mental health hospital. What’s happening now ... 2025 3:02 PM. Lawmakers broke ground this afternoon on the South Central Kansas psychiatric hospital. Left to ...

Cuyahoga County will use $7 million from opioid settlements to build a "first-of-its-kind" behavioral health crisis center ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Work is starting on the new South Central Regional Psychiatric Hospital in Wichita.. Local and state leaders gathered at noon Wednesday for a groundbreaking ceremony at ...

From taking a break from the news to volunteering, an expert offers suggestions on how to deal with our feelings about the ...

A Queensland GP is calling for urgent action after his patient waited for several days in the emergency department and says he had to be sedated, a claim hospital bosses dispute.