Tag: Mental Health

Insurers face tougher mental health coverage fines

Washington Examiner · August 5, 2014 12:01 am

FILE--In this July 24, 2014 file photo, a hospital worker embraces a woman near the scene of a shooting at the Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pa. The deadly shooting at the suburban Philadelphia hospital is serving as yet another illustration of the hazards mental health professionals face on the job, and, experts say, the need for hospitals to do more to protect them. (AP Photo)

Hospital killing shows safety gap in mental health

Michael Rubinkam · August 3, 2014 5:33 pm

California prisons change mental health treatment

Don Thompson · August 1, 2014 11:52 pm

A U.S. veteran with post-traumatic stress sits in a segregated holding pen at the Cook County Jail after he was arrested on a narcotics charge in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

U.S. jails struggle with role as makeshift asylums

adam-geller · July 14, 2014 1:20 pm

FILE- In this Feb. 14, 2013 file photo, an inmate waits for his appointment in a holding room at new mental health treatment unit at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, Calif. Two members of the Council On Mentally Ill Offenders, an obscure council within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's, said the council can not meet its obligations because it has lacked an executive director for more than two years. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Prison mental health panel lacks leadership

Don Thompson · May 25, 2014 4:49 pm

Mental health must be priority in wake of California shooting, lawmakers say

Zack Colman · May 25, 2014 3:32 pm

President Obama salutes as he and first lady Michelle Obama board Air Force One on Wednesday en route to Texas to attend a Fort Hood ceremony honoring those injured and killed there last week. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama mourns another shooting tragedy at Fort Hood

Brian Hughes · April 9, 2014 4:00 am

Members of the media wait outside of the Bernie Beck Gate, an entrance to the Fort Hood military base, for updates on a shooting that occurred inside on April 2 in Fort Hood, Texas. (AP/Tamir Kalifa)

Press gets it wrong again on Fort Hood mass shooting

Mona Charen · April 7, 2014 4:00 am

Lucy Hamlin and her husband, Spc. Timothy Hamlin, wait for permission to re-enter the Fort Hood military base, where they live, following a shooting on base on Wednesday in Fort Hood, Texas. (AP Photo/ Tamir Kalifa)

John Boehner: Keep guns from mentally ill

Susan Ferrechio · April 3, 2014 4:00 am

Federal agents who convinced mentally disabled people to commit crimes and then arrested them may have done so because they didn't realize the people they were targeting had special needs, according to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Todd Jones. (AP/Susan Walsh)

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ATF director: Undercover agents targeted mentally disabled people by accident

Joel Gehrke · April 2, 2014 4:00 am

New York attorney general settles with health insurer over mental health denials

Bryan Cohen · March 24, 2014 2:41 pm

Pilots’ mental health a concern amid jet mystery

David Koenig · March 23, 2014 4:19 pm