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Legislators call for full study on mental health services in criminal proceedings - State of Reform

This week, a workgroup from the Joint Subcommittee to Study Mental Health Services in the Commonwealth in the 21st Century, chaired by Del. Vivian Watts (D - Fairfax), agreed the topic of access to mental health services during criminal proceedings extended beyond a single bill’s enactment clause. 

Vaccine eligibility for mood disorders underscores elevated covid risk

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added mood disorders to the list of conditions that put people at high risk for severe covid-19 recently, clinicians were not surprised. The mind-body connection, they say, is long-settled research.

Virginia orders five state mental hospitals to stop taking new admits amid staffing crisis

Virginia orders five state mental hospitals to stop taking new admits amid staffing crisis Jenna Portnoy © Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post Western State Hospital in Staunton, Va., is one of five state mental health hospitals ordered to close to new admissions due to staffing shortages. The Virginia commissioner in charge of behavioral health on Friday closed five of the state’s eight adult mental health hospitals to new admissions, a step she said is necessary to protect workers amid unprecedented staffing shortages. The pandemic exacerbated overcrowding and inadequate staffing at the state’s psychiatric hospitals, which are required to admit some of the most challenging and often violent patients under involuntary detention orders.

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