New data from Massachusetts’ state mental hospital in Worcester is raising concerns about how long patients are being physically restrained. In an adult care unit in the Department of Mental Health’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
The newly reported details of patient deaths associated with restraint or seclusion spanned from 2020 through 2023. The deaths happened at hospitals in every state except Alaska, with some individual ...
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NHRC probes hospital restraint abuses
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) recommended guidance and supervision to a mental healthcare institution that ...
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 ...
Several months ago, the facility stopped using regular handcuffs to restrain violent patients and switched to Velcro restraints. Hospital officials quickly realized that more employees were being ...
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 ...
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 ...
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