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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rate of restraint use at the state’s psychiatric hospital for children has nearly doubled in the past 18 months, despite pledges that the potentially dangerous procedure would be curtailed. A new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jacob Blake is no longer restrained to his hospital bed following the felony warrants against the 29-year-old being vacated, his attorney announced Friday. Patrick Cafferty, Blake's local lawyer, told ...