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Nursing homes aren’t psych wards. Stop treating them as if they are.
When nursing homes, designed to care for older adults, begin housing aggressive patients with severe behavioral and ...
D.C. Ward 8 voters return indicted Trayon White to office after expulsion
Trayon White Sr., a former D.C. Council member who was expelled in February, is projected to reclaim his Ward 8 seat in a ...
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Her son was severely beaten by sheriff's deputies. Five years later a watchdog group is fighting for records
The battle for records between the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission and L.A. County could have implications for future ...
Mental health care ‘being rationed’ over failure to cut spiralling waiting list, top doctor warns
Some 1.7 million patients are waiting for community mental health care - with more than 48,000 waiting more than two years to ...
‘I get death threats all the time’, CNN’s Clarissa Ward tells conference
“I get death threats all the time, my children get death threats”, CNN journalist Clarissa Ward told a London conference on ...
Germany train attack suspect moved to psychiatric ward
BERLIN: A Syrian man arrested after a violent attack on a German high-speed train last week has been admitted to a psychiatric ward, police said on Wednesday.Th ...
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CQC finds improvements at Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust's mental health wards, but more is needed
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found some improvements in acute wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care units (PICU) run by Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation ...
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Starr Whitehouse’s Hart Island concept plan released by New York City Parks & Recreation Department
Hart Island, a 120-acre, New York City public cemetery in Long Island Sound, is the final resting place for over 1 million ...
Improvements made at mental health trust, says CQC
Inspectors visited wards at Colchester Mental Health Hospital, Derwent Centre in Harlow, Linden Centre in Chelmsford, Basildon Mental Health Unit and Rochford Hospital. Improvements were found in ...
Here’s how one of Onondaga County’s biggest school districts will enforce NY’s cell phone ban
North Syracuse, NY - The North Syracuse Central School District is purchasing Yondr pouches for about 3,000 students in ...
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Colts most revamped units listed among PFF’s top 10 position groups
Last season, the Colts ranked among the bottom five defenses in total yards allowed per game (361.2), pass yards per play ...
R.I. ACLU asks Attorney General to release all videos of Pawtucket shooting, investigate whether police followed protocols
Aside from a distant surveillance video, all of the footage released by the city shows the aftermath of the shooting of a mentally disabled man with a toy gun, not the shooting itself or anything ...