Troubled hospital 'still failing to protect patients'

A health watchdog has highlighted more cases of patients being assaulted by staff at a troubled mental health hospital. The ...

Patients describe 'culture of abuse' as 15 hospital staff arrested

Patients, relatives and whistleblowers have described a culture of abuse at a mental health hospital, while 15 staff members ...
Becker's Hospital Review

CMS: South Dakota mental hospital workers misused restraints

A federal inspection determined patients’ rights were violated at the South Dakota Human Services Center in Yankton — a state-run mental health hospital — when workers misused restraints to control ...

Staff ‘covered patient’s mouth in restraint’ at hospital being emptied after rape and neglect allegations

STAFF working at a mental health hospital embroiled in an abuse scandal have once again been caught assaulting patients. Two ...
TribLIVE.com

Letter to the editor: Leg restraints, hospital safety and social stigma

The Allegheny County Jail is the only jail in Pennsylvania in which officers cannot use leg restraints to secure individuals from jail on a visit to the hospital because of a 2022 referendum. Sheriffs ...
Psychology Today

7 Myths About Physical Restraints in Psychiatric Facilities

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 ...
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Seclusion rooms, restraints used with little documentation in N.B. psych hospital

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's ombudswoman released a damning report Tuesday on the province's use of seclusion rooms and physical restraints in adult psychiatric facilities, practices she said ...