It expands psychiatric and forensic bed capacity in a region that has been waiting for this for far too long,” Gov. Laura ...

Jaime Green The Wichita Eagle Construction on the new state-run psychiatric hospital near Meridian and MacArthur was already well underway Wednesday as local officials and others celebrated a step ...

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“Sooner rather than later.” All the while, Perkins and the state’s entire psychiatric hospital system have continued to attract scrutiny. Days after lawmakers grilled Herrera Scott about the ...

Governor Laura Kelly was in Wichita on Wednesday for the groundbreaking of the new South Central Regional Mental Health ...

After two hung juries, a third jury affirmed the status in 2006, and Landau was put back in custody and committed to a state mental-health hospital indefinitely. “We have been fighting for ...

The Mass. House budget will be released this week. Many are hoping it continues to fund children's mental health, unlike the ...

"Rather than make frivolous cuts under pressure, we must adequately understand the potential consequences of these choices," writes one stakeholder. Another: "I worked for 40 years in the field, and ...