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 ...
A Massachusetts man has died after allegedly being place in a chokehold by a Cape Cod Hospital security guard. The Hyannis, Mass.-based hospital is denying any use of excessive force in the incident.
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Care team “huddles” led to a reduction in physical restraint events at a children’s hospital. Restraint events ...
A lawsuit brought by Conrad Colombo, through his mother and legal guardian Victoria Villarreal, settled after alleging that prolonged restraint, delayed monitoring, and sedative injections during a ...
More than 14,300 patient deaths in medical facilities and hospitals across the U.S. involved them being placed in restraint or seclusion, a USA TODAY Network-New York investigation found. The newly ...
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 ...
"They basically tied me to the rack, and I was a prisoner in my own body. Thinking back on it...it's just crazy, and I can't believe that they did that to me." Craig Fisher Craig Fisher struggled to ...
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 ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A disability rights organization has sued the state’s behavioral health care agency, alleging the department has unlawfully withheld information tied to accusations that ...
Jacob Blake is no longer restrained to his hospital bed following the felony warrants against the 29-year-old being vacated, his attorney announced Friday. Patrick Cafferty, Blake's local lawyer, told ...