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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. -- Central State Hospital, where Irvo Otieno died, has a policy that bans face-down restraints due to safety risks. However, video appeared to show the three hospital workers ...

The security company under contract with Greenville Memorial Hospital says its officers do not put patients in restraints and only assist medical personnel to apply them. On March 6, three American ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved Oregon State Hospital's plan for improving the secure transport of patients after the August 2023 escape of a patient in full ...

LOS ANGELES -- The use of chemical restraint was more common among Black patients versus white and Hispanic patients in psychiatric emergency settings, a single-center study suggested. Among 852 ...

Parkland Memorial Hospital said the patient-gagging incident in the psychiatric emergency room was discovered on April 8 during a routine review of security video from March 16. Parkland notified the ...