TAG / PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS

The suicide of Taylor Meador in Orlando exposes a profit-driven mental health system where neglect is routine, accountability is rare and corporate owners cash in on human misery.

Families of two Vietnam veterans say they were barred from contact as hospitals took control, drained Medicare and let their loved ones die.

As a jury convicts the guilty over a young woman’s preventable death, the deeper scandal is now impossible to deny: Psychiatric “care” in Britain isn’t failing—it’s functioning exactly as designed.

A new report finds over 30 percent of those who die under facedown holds are Black and most perish within five minutes of restraint.

Amid deaths, lawsuits and federal probes, Acadia executives secured seven-figure bonuses.

Pontiac General lost federal funding after a damning record of abuse and neglect. Now it seeks accreditation while housing just four patients.

The NHS spent nearly $3 billion last year outsourcing psychiatric care to for-profit private hospitals like Priory—where patients are dying from abuse, neglect and chemical restraint.

Psychiatric staff in the UK restrained, humiliated and assaulted vulnerable patients while colleagues turned a blind eye. A disturbing new study reveals just how deep the abuse goes.

Options Behavioral Health is facing lawsuits and investigations after reports of forced drugging, sexual abuse and illegal detainment of children. Yet officials have issued no fines and closed the case.

A San Francisco Chronicle investigation reveals systemic failures at Santa Rosa Behavioral Healthcare, where abuse, neglect and underreporting persist without consequence.