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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the chaotic environment of an emergency room, hospital staffers sometimes face the question of whether to use physical restraints when a patient is experiencing a behavioral crisis. Using ...

February 4, 2008 – Newark, N.J. – A new study in the journal Perspectives in Psychiatric Care reveals that when an outside professional consultation team worked closely with the staff, providing ...

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 ...

BOSTON (AP) – The state is considering new rules that would reduce how and when psychiatric patients can be restrained. The new rules would require mental health facilities to train staff to intervene ...

Mental health patients in New York spent a total of nearly 11,900 hours in restraints and 9,000 hours in seclusion while in psychiatric units in 2021, the latest federal data show But the true scope ...

A review published by the Baylor College of Medicine found adult Black patients were significantly more likely to be physically restrained in emergency departments compared with all other patients.

Court monitor's report troubles advocates for the disabled. Nearly two years after Minnesota pledged to eliminate the use of mechanical restraints and seclusion at facilities for people with ...