Amid a youth mental health crisis and a shortage of inpatient psychiatric beds, residents of a St. Louis suburb opposed a ...

The inpatient psychiatric unit is open to patients ages 12 to 17. The hospital also expanded its beds for adults.

In January, a teenager in suburban St. Louis informed his high school counselor that a classmate said he planned to kill himself later that day. The 14-year-old classmate denied it, but his mother ...