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 ...

One of the more devastating legal cases Steve Levin has handled involved a nursing home resident who suffocated to death after becoming trapped between a bedrail and their mattress. Levin, a personal ...

INVESTIGATION IS GETTING RESULTS. LAW ENFORCEMENT LEADERS ARE NOW TAKING A CLOSE LOOK AT HOW FULL BODY RESTRAINTS ARE USED AT JAILS AND PRISONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. IT’S THE FOCUS OF A KMBC NINE ...

We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...