The director of the state Department of Mental Health challenged the nation's mental health system Thursday to undergo holistic reforms already active at the more than 1,000-patient Napa State ...

Napa State Hospital has been home to thousands of residents and workers, a four-story Gothic-style castle, historic houses, a dairy, poultry ranch, vegetable gardens, orchards, farms, a cemetery ...

Tracey Stuart of the Napa County Sheriff's Office ... which is overseen by the state Department of Mental Health, is unsafe. For more than a decade, the hospital has drawn scrutiny and criticism ...

They've been sent to these institutions for psychiatric care. But sometimes the patients can be violent. Five years ago this week, a staff member was murdered by a patient at Napa State Hospital. In ...

A psychiatric technician slain at Napa State Hospital, allegedly by a mentally ill patient, was strangled and robbed of jewelry, less than $2 in cash and a pack of gum, authorities said Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO — It’s been nearly 22 months since Napa State Hospital psychiatric technician Donna Gross was strangled by a patient on the aging facility’s fenced grounds, where staff alarms ...

Napa State, which is managed by California's Department of State Hospitals, is no ordinary psychiatric hospital. Since the mid-1990s, more than 80 percent of Napa's patients have been referred ...

One day after a patient attempted to choke a Napa State Hospital employee, officials announced Thursday that staff members at the psychiatric facility who were ordered to wear new safety alarms on ...

Thousands of assaults occur each year at California's state psychiatric hospitals. Last October, a patient allegedly murdered a staffer at Napa State Hospital. Employees there demonstrated ...

The union coalition includes six unions with members working in California's mental hospitals: the American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees Local 2620, Service Employees ...