New York’s health care costs are crushing state and local budgets, and Albany’s leaders are moving fast to stop the bleeding. Here’s a user’s guide to the proposals on the…

Unlicensed psychiatric homes operate in the far-out corners of the city and below the radar of the state agencies charged to regulate them. Some are dirty and dangerous, others exemplary–and…

Critics say the number of mentally ill prisoners tracked by a new Rikers database is far too low.

Governor Pataki has proposed a slate of Medicaid cost-cutting measures that some have called “devastating.”

City lawyers donate time to speed guardianship.

A class of parolees with mental illnesses and substance abuse problems who are awaiting state-funded treatment have filed a federal lawsuit against the state.