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Outside medical help has once again been called in to care for patients at the Fulton State Hospital as it grapples with steep staffing shortages upwards of 80 percent for some positions.
With staffing shortages compounded by an increase COVID cases, outside staff have been brought in to Missouri's mental health facilities.
A Webster Groves man has been found not guilty by reason of insanity for stabbing his stepfather to death with an 8-inch kitchen knife more than a year and a
The governor's recently proposed pay increases would boost pay for the roughly 25 percent of state employees making minimum wage and establish new wages for more than a third of the total state workforce.
FARMINGTON, Mo. (AP) — State health officials said Thursday a case of Legionnaires' disease has been confirmed in a patient from the Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center in Farmington. Debra Walker, a spokeswoman for the Department of Mental Health, said the mental health center was told about the case on Wednesday after a 66-year-old man was taken to a hospital.