WARM SPRINGS, Mont. — The Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs, the state’s only public adult psychiatric facility, is continuing to see high staff vacancies, budget deficits, and shortfalls in ...

The appropriate use of patient restraints in health care settings can keep both patients and hospital staff safe from injury, but they are often overused and abused. It’s important to know what the ...

Black patients presenting with psychiatric disorders to hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the US have significantly higher rates of chemical restraint than their White counterparts, new ...

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 ...

Excela Health Westmoreland Regional Hospital in Greensburg, Pa., has been cited for failing to report patient deaths following physical or chemical restraint within 24 hours to state and federal ...

When one of Canada's leading public health journalist, Andre Picard wanted to talk to me for an article in the Globe and Mail about my personal experience with restraints, I was honoured. Honoured and ...

At what point does careful consideration for the safety of someone in your care cross the line and become abuse? For people working in residential care with older people this can be an everyday issue.

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