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“It enables me to walk through the world with more grace towards myself about not being able to do the easy everyday tasks ...
WMCHealth, the largest hospital system in the Hudson Valley, routinely discharged vulnerable mental health patients without adequate evaluation or stabilization measures and improperly kept ...
Westchester Medical Center Health Network hospitals discharged patients with active suicidal ideation or other emergency psychiatric conditions without proper stabilization, a NY AG probe revealed.
The state has reached a settlement with Westchester Medical Center over the hospital system’s failure to follow discharge protocols for patients experiencing psychiatric emergencies. An ...
Without warning, a psychiatric patient last summer struck a hospital employee in the face, landing a punch on the worker’s chin. But how security workers, nurses and other employees at the ...
The family of a dog walker killed by a psychiatric patient say they have been 'treated like dirt' by the NHS after learning his attacker has been granted permission to leave hospital. Lewis Stone ...
Dr. Dale Muzzey highlighted the importance of the GeneSight test in personalizing mental health care, while Dr. Crystal Nelson emphasized the relief and hope patients feel when they learn genetics ...
Before treatment, patients were evaluated on a variety of dimensions, including for associated psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and personality disorders, said Ellen Driessen, the study's ...
WMCHealth has also agreed to reform its discharge planning process and protocols for using restraints on psychiatric patients, especially children. And the health system agreed to pay $400,000 in ...
Miss Congeniality fans know all too well that April 25 is the perfect date. So does Miss Congeniality costume designer Susie ...