The governor’s ongoing push to increase involuntary commitments of people with untreated severe mental illness continues to gain steam in Albany. The union representing New York nurse practitioners is ...

NY is poised to involuntarily commit people "due to an inability or refusal, as a result of their mental illness, to provide for their own essential needs" such as food, clothing or shelter. The ...

Gov. Hochul said Friday she’d introduce legislation in the state budget that would make it easier to involuntarily commit those suffering from mental illness to hospitals, citing an uptick in violent ...