RALEIGH, N.C., Dec.

It's difficult to comprehend, but the staff at the state mental hospital in Goldsboro ignored the needs of a patient seated in full view for more than 22 hours before he died.

The staff at Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro knew Donald M. Jones' death was a suicide caused by a drug overdose, not a heart attack as his family was led to believe.

By Michael Biesecker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jul. 10--RALEIGH -- The state Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a bill that would require all patient deaths in state mental hospitals to receive a formal review by a medical examiner.

By Sherry Jacobson, The Dallas Morning News Jul. 4--Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas quietly closed its inpatient psychiatric unit last week, eliminating nine beds reserved for mental-health patients.