PATTON STATE HOSPITAL >> Mark Cochrane held a sprig of burning white sage in his hand and circled the grave of his great-great grandfather, Antonio Saver, fanning smoke, in ceremonial fashion, over ...

Attorneys are demanding that Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino take immediate steps to reduce its patient population and enhance safety protocols amid a surging coronavirus outbreak that has ...

A 260-pound Patton State Hospital inmate who didn’t want to be searched for contraband attacked a guard in 2007 and beat him so badly the guard had to take off work for five months. Such stories have ...

HIGHLAND — In decades past, the state psychiatric hospital here had 5,500 patients, conducted more than 4,500 sterilizations, had extensive canning operations for tomatoes, corn and other vegetables ...

A reader wrote to me recently, saying that he had visited a small museum in Patton State Hospital and found the experience very interesting. He recommended that I should check it out. I duly tracked ...

Patton State Hospital has begun inoculating all consenting staff and patients with their second dose of the coronavirus vaccine in a rush to stem a rapidly spreading outbreak that has killed 16 ...

An audit released Wednesday from the state controller’s office found payroll control deficiencies at San Bernardino County’s Patton State Hospital that led to hundreds of thousands of dollars in false ...

A 50-year-old patient at Patton State Hospital has died after hanging himself in his bedroom, officials say, the eighth suicide at the San Bernardino psychiatric facility since the federal government ...

Four former Patton State Hospital employees are out of their jobs after allegations of payroll fraud have led to an internal investigation. Patton staffers are investigating allegations that a group ...

Two mental patients at Patton State Hospital were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murder in the death of their 50-year-old roommate this week, the first slaying in more than a decade at the San ...