“Patient influx stressing state hospitals” – Operating near capacity, the Osawatomie state hospital is seeking money from the Legislature to add staff. One worker says the help is urgently needed.
“More mentally ill in prison, jail” – A mental health advocate is concerned that three times as many mentally ill people in Kansas are in prison as are in the state hospital system.
“Tragedy points to need for system changes” – Seventeen years after groundbreaking reforms, the
Kansas mental health system is strained and people with urgent needs are falling through the
cracks.