Long ER waits in the U.S. are common, especially for older patients. Some wait for many hours or even days to get a hospital ...

Amid a youth mental health crisis and a shortage of inpatient psychiatric beds, residents of a St. Louis suburb opposed a ...

WMCHealth routinely discharged mental health patients without evaluation or stabilization and improperly kept inpatient ...

Commissioners say Mercy plans to build a new, state-of-the-art $30 million emergency room along Educational Highway, complete ...

The inpatient psychiatric unit is open to patients ages 12 to 17. The hospital also expanded its beds for adults.

Nationwide, psychiatric "boarding"—when a patient waits in the emergency room after providers ... that problem by opening a 77-bed pediatric mental health hospital in the suburb of Webster ...

The space has room for six patients ... That was before the hospital expanded their adult unit to 24 beds at the end of last year. The program is meant to cut down on the number of young people ...

The 14-year-old classmate denied it, but his mother, Marie, tore through his room ... to Mercy Hospital St. Louis. According to his mother, providers told them they didn't have beds available ...