LOS ANGELES -- The use of chemical restraint was more common among Black patients versus white and Hispanic patients in psychiatric emergency settings, a single-center study suggested. Among 852 ...

I read with great interest the recent article regarding patient falls in medical facilities. My mother at age 102 was in a local nursing home after a significant fall in her own home a few years prior ...

I wanted a simple answer to a simple question. How often does Ancora Psychiatric Hospital restrain patients who have intellectual or developmental disabilities? It's a fair question.

Instead, we often resort to physical restraints, medications, and, in some cases, security measures. None of these steps address the root causes of patients' distress. Biting, spitting ...

The use of physical restraint and seclusion of patients in public psychiatric units to prevent harm to themselves or others has fallen significantly over five years with new rules now in place ...

On Tuesday, Ford unveils a website to make available the custom seat belt harness designed for the hundreds of thousands of breast cancer patients at zero cost. All that’s required of a customer ...

During that time, officers, deputies and troopers from 257 agencies handed out 1,036 seat belt citations and 48 child restraint citations. The statewide extra enforcement and awareness campaign ...

October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Ford is offering a new seat belt built for mastectomy patients. Emily Obert, in-vehicle accessibility manager at Ford, says the new “supportbelt ...

The 2019 death of a patient following an altercation with ... Those factors include physical restraint, existing cardiovascular disease from high blood pressure, schizophrenia and the long-time ...

Bridgewater State Hospital continues to use “unlawful and violent” restraint practices with patients and provides “inadequate access to appropriate medical care,” all while failing to ...