The Independence Mental Health Institute, pictured in 2009, is one of two facilities run by the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services offering treatment for acute psychiatric care in Iowa.

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (KCRG) - A group of former nurses at the state-run Independence Mental Health Institute allege they were repeatedly assaulted by patients and their cases went ignored by the State.

State officials recently announced that they will end the state's Integrated Health Home program, which supports severely ...

The finding was part of a report on Iowa's health care landscape published Aug. 22 by Common Sense Institute Iowa, a nonpartisan, free enterprise-oriented economic research and policy think tank.

INDEPENDENCE — Authorities have dropped assault charges against an Independence Mental Health Institute patient who was committed to treatment for a 2014 homicide. Cody Metzker-Madsen, 28, had ...

25,000 Iowans have a state waiver, opening taxpayer funding to pay for care related to a disability like mental illness or intellectual disability. Almost all of them get care within Iowa.