Conditions got so bad at Montana's state mental hospital in 2022 that federal officials withdrew support. The state says things are getting better; patient's families say there's no evidence of that.

The private nonprofit’s initial closures were attributed to state Medicaid cuts made in 2017. Since then, Western’s financial troubles have spiraled. It cut jobs or retrenched services every year ...

Montana's state psychiatric hospital has been so poorly run for decades that patients are unsafe and not treated with dignity and respect, which combined with a pattern of understaffing, ...

A long waiting list at Montana's only state-run psychiatric hospital has left inmates untreated and stuck in county jails. To fix it, health officials want changes to involuntary commitment laws.

Montana children are being sent out of state for mental health services due in part to the state’s low rate of reimbursement, several of the state’s largest providers said Monday.

Invest $19.2 million to upgrade the Montana State Hospital’s infrastructure and buildings at Warm Springs, on top of nearly ...

Director Carl Eby poses for a portrait at the Mental Health Center on Tuesday. Local mental health care providers are feeling the crunch as involuntary commitments to the state hospital in Warm ...

Invest $19.2 million to upgrade the Montana State Hospital’s infrastructure and buildings at Warm Springs, on top of nearly $16 million appropriated in 2023 for renovations already underway ...

State lawmakers are studying Montana’s criminal commitment process and have discussed the need to recruit more mental health providers and increase oversight of the state hospital. But the next ...

A woman experiencing delusions sat in Montana’s Cascade County jail for 125 days while waiting for a bed at the state psychiatric hospital. A man with schizophrenia spent 100 days last year in ...

Young people in Montana were twice as likely to die by suicide than in the rest of the country during the last decade, according to state statistics. Data from 2011 to 2020 released this spring by ...

Montana children are being sent out of state for mental health services due in part to the state’s low rate of reimbursement, several of the state’s largest providers said Monday.