Admitted to a psychiatric care unit for an eating disorder, Ruth Szymankiewicz was allegedly supposed to be under round-the-clock care Teen Ruth Szymankiewicz died after being left alone for 15 ...

In almost every state in the country, the supply of inpatient psychiatric care is insufficient to meet the demand. In a 2006 survey, 34 state mental health authorities reported a shortage of beds for ...

There is little evidence to support the increasing use of surveillance technologies on inpatient mental health wards, according to a new study involving UCL researchers. The research, carried out by ...

Maxwell Jones is in his 70s, has advanced Alzheimer’s disease, and lives in a nursing home in eastern Massachusetts. Not too long ago, he went three days without a meal because his roommate kept ...

A patient in a mental health unit was placed under restraint for an hour by staff, an inspection has found. The incident at ...

Admitted to a psychiatric care unit for an eating disorder, Ruth Szymankiewicz was allegedly supposed to be under round-the-clock care Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...