A federal inspection of a Connecticut hospital revealed that a patient with severe physical and mental issues died as the result of being held in physical restraints, as recorded in the patient’s ...

More than 14,300 patient deaths in medical facilities and hospitals across the U.S. involved them being placed in restraint or seclusion, a USA TODAY Network-New York investigation found. The newly ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) --Some patients' movement needs to be restricted in order to prevent them from hurting themselves or falling, or disrupting their own treatment. New research suggests, ...

South Dakota's state-run mental hospital in Yankton violated patients' rights by misusing restraints to control potentially unruly subjects, a federal inspection found. Employees at the Human Services ...

A hospital in central Pennsylvania has been cited by the Pennsylvania Department of Health after a patient died while being placed in restraints. An investigation into Geisinger Holy Spirit Hospital’s ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A disability rights organization has sued the state’s behavioral health care agency, alleging the department has unlawfully withheld information tied to accusations that ...

WARM SPRINGS, Mont. — The Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs, the state’s only public adult psychiatric facility, is continuing to see high staff vacancies, budget deficits, and shortfalls in ...

After discovering its use of patient restraints failed to fall under best practice guidelines, South Boston, Va.-based Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital redesigned its restraint policy by leveraging a ...

Video showing face-biting suspect Austin Harrouff battling his restraints while being treated at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach should be released to the public, a judge in Martin County ...

At least 50 hospital patients were improperly restrained in New York between 2015 and 2018, spanning men and women handcuffed, hit with batons, drugged, and left strapped to beds up to 12 hours ...