psychiatric care

Jail-based pilot programs from the Missouri Department of Mental Health are enabling some people to stand trial while they wait for a state hospital bed in jail or out on bond, but the backlog is still growing.

The 444 individuals on the Department of Mental Health’s waitlist have been charged with crimes but not convicted.

COLUMBIA - A Missouri hospital that helped stop a competing effort to build a psychiatric hospital two months ago has proposed a $21 million facility to…

The mental health care system is faced with diminishing resources, making it harder for people with psychiatric illnesses to find help. From police…