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 ...

Facilities across the country, whether they are ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) designated hospitals, designation hopefuls, or just seeking to improve their quality of care, struggle daily with ...

A hospital in central Pennsylvania has been cited by the Pennsylvania Department of Health after a patient died while being placed in restraints. An investigation into Geisinger Holy Spirit Hospital’s ...

Patients are less likely to be put in restraints when hospitals have more registered nurses on duty, new research has found. A study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that ...

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 ...

One New York hospital’s security officers used a police-style “bent arm bar” hold on a pediatric patient under age 19, breaking her arm. Another hospital’s security team handcuffed a patient to a ...

A 16-year-old girl dies after being physically restrained by staff members during a disruption in a Katy facility for troubled kids. Officials defend the control technique, called the "basket hold," ...

A Laredo lawmaker who hoped that a physical-restraint tragedy in Katy last fall would help to focus attention on the need for new patient-restraint regulations instead came away empty-handed when the ...

A North Carolina hospital is making excessive use of patient restraints, a practice that has been largely discontinued at most hospitals and healthcare institutions as unsafe and harmful to patients, ...

Because the hospital is a cancer center, "we explain to them that they might be at higher risk of confusion—this could be cancer tumor–related; chemotherapy can increase confusion—and also our ...

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 ...