There won't be a mental health center built in the Seven Oaks community, according to what developer Craig Weber told Pasco County commissioners last week. ...more

February 15, 2009

St. Joseph's Hospital has installed an electronic monitoring system and a camera in its psychiatric ward to better observe patients after a state agency investigated a December rape reported there, documents state. ...more

February 14, 2009

St. Joseph's Hospital has installed an electronic monitoring system and a camera in its psychiatric ward to observe patients better after a state agency investigated a rape reported there in December, documents say. ...more

February 13, 2009

After an extensive search, Spring Hill Regional Hospital plucked its new chief executive from a hospital a few hundred miles away. ...more

February 4, 2009

The state reached a settlement with troubled Tampa Bay Academy that allows its mental health center to admit children if it pays a $50,000 fine and meets every standard set by regulators. ...more

January 16, 2009

Problems erupted with the state's new Medicaid payment system the day it went online seven months ago, and they haven't gone away. ...more

January 16, 2009

The state has reached a settlement with the troubled Tampa Bay Academy, which will be allowed to admit patients into its long-term mental health care program when it shows it meets every standard set by regulators. ...more

January 15, 2009

Problems erupted with the state's new Medicaid payment system the day it went online seven months ago. And they're still happening. ...more

January 15, 2009

The state officially stopped Tampa Bay Academy on Friday from providing long-term mental health care to the most troubled children, but the academy's problems aren't unique to its corporate parent in Texas. ...more

January 10, 2009

The official rebuke to the troubled Tampa Bay Academy comes at 5 p.m. today – the time when state regulators said they will suspend the academy's license for what they called "gross mismanagement" of mental health care. Barring a last-minute decision – the academy's executives have appealed to regulators with an improvement plan – the for-profit mental health center in Riverview will no longer be able to provide long-term residential care to children and teenagers who suffer from severe mental illness. ...more

January 9, 2009