Restrictive practices in mental health settings—such as physical restraint and seclusion—are meant to be a last resort, used ...

When nursing homes, designed to care for older adults, begin housing aggressive patients with severe behavioral and ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — New safety standards aimed at limiting suicide risks have led to overhauls inside hospitals around the country, with psychiatric facilities and wards removing bathroom doors ...

The “psych ward” remains among the most stigmatized places in modern medicine. Despite more-accepting public attitudes toward mental-health care, inpatient psychiatric units continue to evoke ...

The challenges faced by psychiatric-ward physicians across the country are legible in what few casualty statistics we have. At Western State Hospital in Washington, for example, at least twenty ...

Voices Working on a psychiatric ward, I'm inspired by how patients are dealing with the lockdown. Throughout the course of this pandemic I’ve witnessed how it is those of us who take freedom for ...

'The street corner is not a psychiatric ward': Adams restates support of removing people with mental illness from NYC streets in wake of Manhattan stabbing spree ...

Convinced that psychiatric wards’ bland, bad design directly affects patients like himself, Leadbitter and collaborator Hannah Hull spent months conducting workshops around the U.K. to ...

An inquiry into a teenager's suicide has concluded that too often young people are being placed in "wholly inappropriate" units.

A study found psychiatric patients waited an average of 11.5 hours in hospital emergency rooms before being treated or released. That's in part because many hospitals have decided it's not ...

But today, the psychiatric unit in my New York City hospital really is — amazingly — quiet. The unit is suddenly an oasis away from covid-19.