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 ...

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 ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved Oregon State Hospital's plan for improving the secure transport of patients after the August 2023 escape of a patient in full ...

Some of the patient-restraint incidents also lacked a licensed health provider’s order as required by law. Other cases involved hospital workers and security officers who lacked required training for ...

Thousands of patients are restrained in hospital ERs and wards with limited oversight A months-long investigation reveals state and federal laws allow hospitals to withhold many details about ...