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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 2018 restraint chair death led to a $1.5 million legal settlement. The jail has used restraint chairs more than 1,000 times ...

Restrictive practices in mental health settings—such as physical restraint and seclusion—are meant to be a last resort, used only when patients pose a risk to themselves or others.

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 ...