Hawaiʻi State Hospital

In 2021, the state unveiled the $160 million, 144-bed psychiatric facility. But the state delayed its opening for a year in part to address issues with the shower floors, door handles and hinges — along with staffing difficulties.

A former Hawaiʻi psychiatric hospital patient has been indicted on a murder charge in the stabbing death of a nurse at the facility. Court records also show Tommy Kekoa Carvalho pleaded guilty to a 2020 assault of a state mental health worker.

A former patient at the state psychiatric hospital is under arrest after the fatal stabbing of a nurse. Police say the 29-year-old male staff member was stabbed multiple times at Hawaiʻi State Hospital.

Patients slowly began moving into the new Hawaiʻi State Hospital on Oʻahu’s windward side last spring. Construction problems delayed moving into the state's psychiatric facility for almost a year. The Conversation talked to Marian Tsuji, the deputy director for behavioral health at the Health Department.

State officials expect the Hawaiʻi State Hospital to finally open its new psychiatric facility in about two weeks after more than a year of delays. The $160 million facility in Kāneʻohe was finished in early 2021.

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A newly constructed Hawaiʻi psychiatric facility sits empty because of problems including sloping showers and door fixtures that could be dangerous for suicidal patients.

A formerly homeless man who ended up in a mental institution for more than two years because of mistaken identity is suing the state of Hawaii and various Honolulu police officers, public defenders and doctors.

The Hawaiʻi Innocence Project says officials wrongfully arrested a homeless man for a crime committed by another person, locked him up in a state hospital for more than two years, forced him to take powerful medication and then tried to cover up the mistake by quietly setting him free.

HONOLULU — A man who spent decades in a Hawaii psychiatric hospital for killing a woman was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for escaping from…