Facilities across the country, whether they are ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) designated hospitals, designation hopefuls, or just seeking to improve their quality of care, struggle daily with ...

More than 800 of every 1,000 hours psychiatric patients were hospitalized at a rural North Carolina hospital from July 1 through Dec. 31, 2013, were spent in some kind of physical restraint. That ...

Where did the data come from? To report this story, The Times analyzed data collected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency that has gathered restraint information from ...

A 16-year-old girl dies after being physically restrained by staff members during a disruption in a Katy facility for troubled kids. Officials defend the control technique, called the "basket hold," ...

Jess Thompson, 27, of Abington views her life in two parts: before she was restrained, and after. Thompson had been sent to South Shore Hospital by ambulance in September 2020 after staff at an ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One New York hospital’s security officers used a police-style “bent arm bar” hold on a pediatric patient under age 19, breaking ...

Maine’s hospitals used physical restraints and seclusion techniques on psychiatric patients last year at higher rates than the national average, according to new data released by the federal ...

A North Carolina hospital is making excessive use of patient restraints, a practice that has been largely discontinued at most hospitals and healthcare institutions as unsafe and harmful to patients, ...

A Laredo lawmaker who hoped that a physical-restraint tragedy in Katy last fall would help to focus attention on the need for new patient-restraint regulations instead came away empty-handed when the ...

Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest was cited by the Pennsylvania Department of Health in September after pepper spray was ...

Because the hospital is a cancer center, "we explain to them that they might be at higher risk of confusion—this could be cancer tumor–related; chemotherapy can increase confusion—and also our ...