Lawmakers Work on Funding Plan for New State Hospital

For workers in a state mental hospital, the risk of assault and injury goes with the job. But Missouri’s Legislature is trying to make sure that workers at the state’s largest and oldest psychiatric facility don’t have their own building working against them.Legislators and Gov. Jay Nixon are trying to work out funding for a bipartisan effort to build a new Fulton State Hospital, which the state Department of Mental Health says is the oldest state psychiatric facility west of the Mississippi River. More workers get hurt at Fulton than at any of Missouri’s state mental h...