Hawaii’s State-Run Psychiatric Hospital Is So Crowded Patients Sleep In Conference Rooms

Less than two years after the new $160 million Hawaii State Hospital opened, it is routinely overflowing with so many court-ordered admissions that patients are placed in beds in classrooms and other portions of the facility not meant for housing, according to hospital staff. The fatal stabbing of a 29-year-old nurse at the state-run hospital … Continue reading Hawaii’s State-Run Psychiatric Hospital Is So Crowded Patients Sleep In Conference Rooms