Adelaide’s Urgent Mental Health Care Centre, which operates as an alternative to EDs and is open 24 hours a day, seven days a ...

A new report finds over 30 percent of those who die under facedown holds are Black and most perish within five minutes of ...

People may enter psychiatric treatment without much more than the clothes on their backs. They're often not provided with ...

Without warning, a psychiatric ... the patient started convulsing “as if he/she was having a seizure,” the report said. The employees placed his arms in legs in restraints attached to the ...

Westchester Medical Center Health Network hospitals discharged patients ... an additional 20-bed psychiatric unit at MidHudson Regional Hospital, James said. Hospital restraints: Explore our ...

How often does Ancora Psychiatric Hospital ... intellectually disabled patients treated generally? To get an idea, I decided to focus on one number: the rate of restraint use.

When other child psychiatric ... s ability to treat patients in the community, Searls said. When Searls began to work with children in need of psychiatric care at the center, she said their rates of ...

A state agency is working to improve patient safety in six psychiatric facilities in Connecticut ... sexual abuse and harassment, and use of restraint and seclusion. A representative of Disability ...

It’s also raising further questions about how hospitals handle violent psychiatric patients ... protocol in many hospitals. Restraint Procedures – If a patient becomes violent, some hospitals ...

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 ...