Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At least 50 hospital patients were improperly restrained in New York between 2015 and 2018, spanning men and women handcuffed, hit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many medical facilities across the U.S. use hoods on psychiatric patients to block them from spitting. Experts say the ...

A state Department of Mental Health patient suffocated to death earlier this year at the bottom of a dogpile of agency employees who failed to follow the department’s training on physically ...

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 ...

Some of the patient-restraint incidents also lacked a licensed health provider’s order as required by law. Other cases involved hospital workers and security officers who lacked required training for ...