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Blue and green sign that reads Brynn Marr Hospital in front of a parking lot with a hospital building behind it.

Former employees say short-staffed NC psych hospital rife with violence, abuse

by Taylor Knopf May 6, 2024May 8, 2024

The image shows a hospital staff worker using a computer in a patient waiting area. At times, mental health patients in crisis can wait in emergency rooms under involuntary commitment for days or weeks for an available psychiatric bed.

What happens when you take someone in a mental health crisis to the E.R.?

by Taylor Knopf September 8, 2023July 22, 2025

A mom, dad and their daughter walk down the street with a large black dog and small brown dog. The daughter was admitted to Brynn Marr hospital in 2022.

NC psych hospital failed to provide ‘safe and therapeutic’ environment, feds say

by Taylor Knopf May 10, 2023May 22, 2023

A young white girl with blonde hair covering her face sits at a table on a screened in porch drawing, which is part of mental health therapy homework

Durham 11-year-old was sexually assaulted in NC psychiatric hospital, parents allege

by Taylor Knopf November 30, 2022May 12, 2025

Older white man in suit gestures to a younger white man sitting in a chair behind him at a townhall discussion about mental helath care and the rising mental health crisis numbers

Big changes are needed to turn the tide of North Carolina’s mental health crisis, health leaders say

by Taylor Knopf August 23, 2022January 26, 2026

many stick figure people in front of a real hospital emergency patient registration sign, they represent all the people in mental health crisis who sit in the emergency department waiting for a psychiatric bed

New mental health data show ‘unsustainable’ burden on NC hospitals

by Taylor Knopf August 22, 2022December 23, 2024