Hidden in plain sight in St. Joseph, Missouri, there’s a museum that most people have never heard of, and once you learn ...

A psychiatric medical institution processed 53 patients who were not capable of writing their own admission consent forms as voluntary admissions, unfairly restricting their right to be discharged and ...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) found that a psychiatric hospital's measures of putting a diaper on a patient and isolating and restraining the patient for four consecutive days amounted ...

A Waterdown family is sharing a deeply personal experience from the intensive care unit (ICU) at Joseph Brant Hospital, hoping it will prompt greater awareness and dialogue around the use of physical ...

To better support elderly patients, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital will stop the use of physical restraints at more wards over the next three years. The hospital saw lower levels of burnout among staff and ...

KTPH's geriatric wards marked one year without physical restraints, including vests and limb restraints, improving elderly patient care. Restraint-free care led to greater patient mobility, reduced ...

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 ...

Here is what 308,784 voters saw on the November 2021 ballot, which banned the use of leg restraints in hospital emergency rooms: “Shall the Allegheny Code Chapter 205, Allegheny County Jail be amended ...

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 ...

New data from Massachusetts’ state mental hospital in Worcester is raising concerns about how long patients are being physically restrained. In an adult care unit in the Department of Mental Health’s ...