HAMPTON, Va. — Millions of people each year have a mental health crisis but not everyone can get the help they need. In Virginia, many wind up in the emergency room or in the jails, but lawmakers and ...

The relationship between the emergency room and schizophrenia (or those with serious mental illness) is complicated and often results in undesirable outcomes. Only patients under full throttle ...

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Carly Whelan thought sitting in prison would be an improvement over the conditions inside ECMC’s comprehensive psychiatric emergency room. This past spring, police brought Whelan to CPEP, ECMC’s ...

More than 80 percent of emergency room physicians say the mental healthcare systems in their regions are dysfunctional, and do not adequately serve patients, according to a survey done in December by ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — E.W. Sparrow Hospital’s psychiatric emergency room is facing criticism after multiple people claimed they had unsafe experiences. The former patients even started a group ...

Multiple emergency room visits for children experiencing mental health crises are on the rise, according to a new study. Experts say that a broken system is to blame. The study, published in the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Recently, I had to make a return at a local department store. As soon as I went through the usual entrance I saw the signs of demise. There were very few shoppers. The merchandise ...

At least 40 percent of the children that Wicomico schools sent to the psychiatric emergency room last year were under age 12; some were as young as 5. Credit: Julia Nikhinson/ Associated Press The ...

Jeremy Sheppard returned from visiting his son at the emergency room last week to his quaint brick house in Derry. “He’s really depressed, and it’s going not well for him right now,” he told his wife.