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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Patients showed greater physical mobility and an 82 per cent reduction in refusal of care, said the hospital. Read more at ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST. PETER — Seclusion and restraints are still being used to subdue aggressive patients at the Minnesota Security Hospital, show the results of a new state investigation. One patient, who has a ...

Seclusion and restraints are still being used to subdue aggressive patients at the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. Peter, show the results of a new state investigation. One patient, who has a ...

As Gov. Kathy Hochul pushes a $1 billion plan to overhaul New York’s mental health care system, psychiatric patients at 13 hospitals statewide are being placed in restraints at rates above the ...

A new report shows clinic workers at the Bridgewater State Hospital often use chemical restraints and seclusion on people held there in violation of state law. Despite the Baker administration's ...

The state's largest psychiatric hospital improperly restrained a patient with a history of aggressive behavior early this year — in one case confining the individual for more than 17 hours. The ...

A patient at Beaumont Hospital in Troy burned one of the restraints on his bed with a cigarette lighter, according to a police report. Troy officers were called to the hospital at 44201 Dequindre Road ...