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, stripping artwork from ...

Stigma and shame still surround psychiatric hospitalization — and for those of us with bipolar disorder, discharge can mean facing the world alone and unsupported. I have found that there is plenty of ...

“I didn’t think he was safe in that hallway, but I also didn’t see him actually being able to get out because he would have to walk past security,” said Ezra's mother.

Rockhampton Base Hospital In Queensland, Australia, is leveraging RFID to improve workers’ safety during a renovation that’s brought down walls and left holes in building security. Nurses in the ...

The shortages mean that patients who enter an emergency room with an acute psychiatric crisis may wait days or weeks for a bed, inmates who qualify for psychiatric care may wait in jail for several ...

A mental health unit offering support for working-age adults has opened in Lincolnshire. The 19-bed mixed-gender unit, called ...

A psychiatric intensive care unit in Leicester has undergone a £1.6m revamp - the first major refurbishment since it opened in 1998. Belvoir Ward, part of the Bradgate Mental Health Unit at Glenfield ...

Two patients removed a bedroom window and escaped from the locked mental health ward of northern Sydney hospital last month, in the latest abscondment to rock the state’s mental health system.