The Arizona State Hospital provides critically important inpatient psychiatric care to people with mental illnesses who are under court order for treatment. Treatment at our state hospital is ...

How Arnold v. Sam revamped Arizona's mental health system: In 1981, Chick Arnold risked his job as the Maricopa County public fiduciary by suing his employer and the state of Arizona because ...

Delayed access to care often leads to more severe illness, greater emergency department use, and higher health care costs.

According to data from the University of Arizona reported in May 2023, the state needed between 142 and 233 full-time psychiatrist physicians to eliminate the current mental health care shortage.

Sissons said things in Arizona are better than they were in 2012, when funding for mental health in Arizona dropped because of the recession. “We lost 200,000 who were childless adults,” she said.

PHOENIX — Arizona has announced more independent oversight for its state-run psychiatric hospital by adding members to its board. The Arizona State Hospital’s governing body was capped at 11 ...

The Arizona state mental hospital has passed a federal re-inspection and will not lose its certification, officials said Tuesday. The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, or CMS, restored ...

According to a 2020 Arizona's Health Care Cost Containment System report to the Arizona Joint Legislative Budget Committee, hundreds of children have been placed out of state since 2016. Syf 2019 ...

When the lawsuit was filed in 2012, the Arizona corrections system directly provided mental and medical health care in its facilities. But a few months later, thanks to a state law that privatized ...