Experts say it's unusual for a state to still have all of its original public mental hospitals. The number of state mental institutions across the country fell from 322 in 1950 to 195 in 2013 ...

Seven former Independence Mental Health Institute nurses have filed claims of gross negligence against the state and Iowa Health and Human Services. Some of them have shared stories of assaults ...

Three former nurses at MHI Independence, an Iowa mental health hospital, allege unsafe working conditions led to serious injuries, including, for one of them, a miscarriage. The nurses claim ...

BETTENDORF, Iowa (KWQC) - First responders saved the life of a person having a mental health crisis on the I-74 bridge. It happened overnight Friday. Video shot by a TV6 crew captured the moment first ...

Eight nonprofit Iowa hospitals have shuttered their psychiatric units since 2007, often citing staffing and financial challenges. Iowa closed two of its four mental health institutions in 2015.

Iowa faces a shortage of hospital beds and mental and behavioral health providers, leaving Iowa’s mental health system overburdened, experts say. With a shortage of providers and a lack of access to ...

A former nursing home in Grinnell, Iowa, could join growing ranks of for-profit psychiatric hospitals. Are they an answer to critical shortage of care?

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (KCRG) - A group of former nurses at the state-run Independence Mental Health Institute allege they were repeatedly assaulted by patients and their cases went ignored by the ...

Hospitals’ mental health units rely heavily on Medicaid. ... Most of Iowa's psychiatric beds are in metro areas, and it can take several days for a slot to come open.

A new report out Wednesday shows Iowa has just 2 state-run psychiatric hospital beds per 100,000 Iowans. Gov. Kim Reynolds has a plan that could help.

MoveOn.org spokesman Brett Abrams cited studies that show 4.1 percent of Iowans, or about 123,000 people, have a serious mental illness, and that Iowa ranks 47th nationally in general fund ...