WYSO Public Radio

Who’s in Ohio’s psychiatric hospitals, how did they get there and when do they get out?

Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more ...
WVXU

Trapped inside the 'scariest place' — a psychiatric hospital in Indiana

Content warning: This story includes detailed descriptions of psychiatric hospitalization, involuntary confinement and allegations of medical neglect. Tina Blackburn woke up in her rental car outside ...
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Inside DC’s Troubled Psychiatric Hospital: “This Place Is Actually Trauma-Inducing”

n April 13, 2024, a woman we’ll call Rachel stepped out of her home in Northeast DC following a heated argument with her soon-to-be-ex-husband. A brisk walk through the neighborhood, she thought, ...
WXYZ

'Disgusting.' Ex-patients' rights workers at Pontiac General upset hospital is still open

(WXYZ) — For the last year, the 7 Investigators have been exposing allegations of civil rights abuses and other serious problems inside a local psychiatric hospital ...
Becker's Hospital Review

EMTALA violations go unpunished at some psych hospitals: 5 notes

More than 90 psychiatric hospitals have violated EMTALA in the past 15 years, and most have not faced any consequences, ProPublica found. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act was enacted in ...