The director of the state Department of Mental Health challenged the nation's mental health system Thursday to undergo holistic reforms already active at the more than 1,000-patient Napa State ...

Napa State Hospital psychiatric worker slain. NAPA Mentally ill patient placed under arrest. By Stacy Finz, John King, Chronicle Staff Writers Oct 25, 2010.

Kylie Parker, spokesperson for Napa State Hospital, walked through a new museum that is being created on hospital grounds that will focus on the history and treatment of mental illness. The museum ...

Napa State Hospital patient Shawn Brackin spent 17 days in the ICU at UCSF Medical Center after being severely beaten by a fellow patient ... Despite the complaints and problems at California’s state ...

California officials have agreed to allow federal investigators to enter Napa State Hospital and another state mental hospital in Los Angeles County to probe ...

California workplace regulators have fined Napa State Hospital more than $100,000 for safety violations the agency says it uncovered in its probe of a psychiatric nurse's slaying.

NAPA, Calif. — It has been nearly three years since psychiatric technician Donna Gross was strangled on the fenced grounds of Napa State Hospital — a slaying that helped expose a systemwide ...

NAPA — Jess Willard Massey pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity Tuesday to the murder of Napa State Hospital psychiatric technician Donna Gross last year. Two doctors will ...

Napa State Hospital in California added safeguards to protect workers after a psychiatric technician was murdered in 2010. But violence remains a part of daily life at the facility.

SAN FRANCISCO — It’s been nearly 22 months since Napa State Hospital psychiatric technician Donna Gross was strangled by a patient on the aging facility’s fenced grounds, where staff alarms ...

Napa Mental Hospital Adds Alarm System Published August 13, 2012. ... But Napa State Hospital workers say the lanyards pose a risk of strangulation.