Bridgewater State Hospital continues to use “unlawful and violent” restraint practices with patients and provides “inadequate access to appropriate medical care,” all while failing to address ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At least 50 hospital patients were improperly restrained in New York between 2015 and 2018, spanning men and women handcuffed, hit ...

Two Los Angeles County supervisors are calling on health officials to find alternatives to physically restraining patients, voicing concerns after a Times investigation found an L.A. County-run ...

Patients, relatives and whistleblowers have described a culture of abuse at a mental health hospital, while 15 staff members ...

The appropriate use of patient restraints in health care settings can keep both patients and hospital staff safe from injury, but they are often overused and abused. It’s important to know what the ...

Tucson Medical Center has overhauled patient restraint procedures at its psychiatric ward, but not before a state authority investigated dozens of complaints and sent a special enforcement team to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Paramedic Chris Tabor works the night shift in Multnomah County. “It’s almost like a different world” when it gets dark in Portland, he said. “The city slows down and that’s ...

A review published by the Baylor College of Medicine found adult Black patients were significantly more likely to be physically restrained in emergency departments compared with all other patients.

A hospital nurse who was fired after a violent assault from a patient has won her case to gain unemployment benefits following a court ruling in Iowa. Cresco, Iowa-based Regional Health Services of ...

Los Angeles General Medical Center restrains inpatients in its psychiatric unit at a rate higher than any other hospital in California — and more than 50 times the national average for inpatient ...