A new mental health hospital is coming to Independence, Mo., offering much-needed services for the Kansas City area.

Two out-of-state companies have developed psychiatric hospitals in Iowa in the past four years, and now a third company has obtained a state "certificate of need" to open a 60-bed facility in ...

The hospital officially closed the eight-bed unit Monday, CEO Jay Christensen told the publication. The unit primarily treated older adults with mental health issues and was losing $500,000 ...

A former nursing home in Grinnell, Iowa, could join growing ranks of for-profit psychiatric hospitals. Are they an answer to critical shortage of care?

A proposed Iowa psychiatric hospital is closer to fruition after state regulators signed off on the project, reports The Des Moines Register. Here are five things to know. 1. The project, approved ...

Eight nonprofit Iowa hospitals have shuttered their psychiatric units since 2007, often citing staffing and financial challenges. Iowa closed two of its four mental health institutions in 2015.

GRINNELL, Iowa — A for-profit company has proposed turning a boarded-up former nursing home here into a psychiatric hospital, joining a national trend toward having such hospitals owned by investors ...