The Baker Act allows a person to be involuntarily detained and examined if they are believed to be having a mental health ...

Investigative Reporter Katie LaGrone uncovers new concerns in how VA hospitals in Florida report how often patients are ...

The Human Services Subcommittee met on Thursday to hear updates on how well the state of Florida was doing in terms of providing its residents with access to mental health care and resources since the ...

A new, peer-reviewed study links evictions and housing insecurity to mental health problems in children, something many Florida nonprofit organizations said is increasing. The Journal of the American ...

The attorneys for a man accused in the brutal attack of a Palm Beach County nurse said their client is a "hardworking, loving ...

New details were released on Wednesday in the attack on a nurse by one of her patients that left her in critical condition.

A Florida appeals court has sided with Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital in a lawsuit stemming from the 2022 fatal ...

Palms West is not a Baker Act-receiving facility, yet the man now charged with attempted murder was under the mental health hold.

The beating broke 'essentially every bone' in the Palms West nurses face. The mental-health patient faces a charge of ...

"Where was security in all of this?" asked the daughter of the nurse, who survived the attack but may lose the use of both ...

Stephen Scantlebury, 33, was hospitalized at HCA Florida Palms West Hospital under the state’s Baker Act, which allows law enforcement to involuntarily hospitalize subjects temporarily but doesn’t ...