A hospital in central Pennsylvania has been cited by the Pennsylvania Department of Health after a patient died while being placed in restraints. An investigation into Geisinger Holy Spirit Hospital’s ...

More than 800 of every 1,000 hours psychiatric patients were hospitalized at a rural North Carolina hospital from July 1 through Dec. 31, 2013, were spent in some kind of physical restraint. That ...

TORONTO – A Toronto Centre for Addiction and Mental Health patient’s 2005 death is being investigated by the coroner. Restraints are believed to be the cause of the man’s demise. The patient in ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health cited Geisinger Holy Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill after conducting an investigation into the Sept. 26 death of a patient placed in restraints, according to a Penn ...

Federal and state authorities are investigating Lehigh Valley Hospital after a review found that security guards used stun guns on unruly patients four times since 2008 in violation of state and ...

The appropriate use of patient restraints in health care settings can keep both patients and hospital staff safe from injury, but they are often overused and abused. It’s important to know what the ...

Federal and state authorities are investigating Lehigh Valley Hospital after a review found that security guards used stun guns on unruly patients four times since 2008 in violation of state and ...

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MILFORD, Ohio, June 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The use of bed restraints is a delicate issue for healthcare providers. Thousands of patients in U.S. hospitals are tied to their beds every day.

Using hospital inspection reports released by the Connecticut Department of Public Health, the Connecticut Health Investigative Team published a database revealing numerous patient safety violations ...

HARRISBURG -- The Pennsylvania Department of Health is citing a hospital for restraining a patient who later died from a brain injury. PennLive.com reported Thursday the health department found ...