Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal inspection of a Connecticut hospital revealed that a patient with severe physical and mental issues died as the result ...

UVM Medical Center’s main hospital campus in Burlington, VT. Courtesy of the hospital. State regulators have cited the University of Vermont Medical Center for how it used restraints on two patients ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hospitals are forbidden under federal law from restraining psychiatric patients except to prevent them from harming themselves or others. Restraints can be used only when other steps have failed and ...

More than 800 of every 1,000 hours psychiatric patients were hospitalized at a rural North Carolina hospital from July 1 through Dec. 31, 2013, were spent in some kind of physical restraint. That ...

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 ...