NEWLY assumed Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Nicolas Torre III has vowed to institutionalize the three-minute emergency police response time acr ...

It would be a terrifying return to the policies of the 19th and early 20th centuries, when individuals could be committed to ...

Four different meanings of how 'institutionalization' in psychiatry is conceptualized were identified from sixty-one papers across eleven different countries, i.e. bricks and mortar of care ...

Program, launched in 2022 with CareLinx, stands alone in America as the only initiative laser-focused on the “forgotten ...

In the wake of the proposed $700 billion Medicaid cuts in the House Republicans’ "One Big Beautiful Bill," advocates and experts are assessing the ...

Forced community-based psychiatric treatment orders need to be banned. Right now, patients who refuse these may face criminal penalties, more forced drugging, or re-institutionalization, raising inter ...

The Civil Rights Division will continue to advocate for states to provide people with disabilities the services they need to avoid unnecessary institutionalization." The DOJ has notified the ...

4.5 million people rely on Medicaid HCBS to avoid institutionalization. Today, roughly 4.5 million people use Medicaid-funded HCBS as an alternative to institutionalization; the waivers help pay ...

Protection from institutionalization for disabled people is a right that has been federally guaranteed since a 1999 Supreme Court case. Now, Colorado disability advocates are one step closer to ...

Former reality star Collin Gosselin had hopes of becoming a member of the armed forces after enlisting in the Marines when he graduated from high school last year. But his dreams of serving his ...

The findings of the review emphasize that the term 'institutionalization' in modern psychiatry goes beyond definitions based on bricks and mortar, but rather includes ideas about staff's ...