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 ...

ST. PETER, Minn. — Union workers at the state hospital that houses 373 of Minnesota’s most violent and mentally ill patients want more freedom to use restraints amid recent incidents resulting in ...

A recent assault that landed a security counselor in the hospital with severe head injuries has rekindled the controversy surrounding the use of restraints. The American Federation of State, County ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of hospital patients in New York are subjected to restraint with limited independent oversight, despite mounting concerns about racial bias and other injustices linked to the incidents, USA ...