Los Angeles General Medical Center restrains inpatients in its psychiatric unit at a rate higher than any other hospital in California — and more than 50 times the national average for inpatient ...
Mental health patients in New York spent a total of nearly 11,900 hours in restraints and 9,000 hours in seclusion while in psychiatric units in 2021, the latest federal data show But the true scope ...
Los Angeles General Medical Center restrained patients in its psychiatric inpatient unit at the fourth-highest rate of any such facility in the United States, newly released annual figures show — the ...
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 ...
Legislation being considered in Concord would change the way psychiatric patients are transported, putting medical professionals -- not police officers -- in charge.Mental health advocates said they ...
An Allegheny County Jail sergeant used excessive force on three female former inmates, one of whom was pregnant, with psychiatric disabilities, according to a federal lawsuit.The women, April Walker, ...
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 ...
A new report has raised concerns about the use of physical restraint and forced tube feeding in Edinburgh's inpatient mental health ward for 12 to 17-year-olds. The inspection of the Melville Unit at ...
The Melville Unit is housed in the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh A new report has raised concerns about the use of physical restraint and forced tube feeding in Edinburgh's ...