As Gov. Kathy Hochul pushes a $1 billion plan to overhaul New York’s mental health care system, psychiatric patients at 13 hospitals statewide are being placed in restraints at rates above the ...
The inspection of the Melville Unit in Edinburgh was the first in a series of visits to psychiatric wards ordered following ...
LAPEER, Mich. — Carrie Sparks was sitting in the front seat of her car, just steps away from the emergency room of McLaren Hospital in Lapeer, Michigan. For the last 18 days, she'd been practically ...
(ABC News) -- When Joanne Minich recently visited son Peter, 31, at Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts, prison guards brought her to a locked cell that inmates call the 'bird cage,' where he ...
Los Angeles General Medical Center restrained psychiatric patients at its inpatient unit at one of the highest rates in the nation in 2022. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles General ...
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 ...
LAPEER, Mich. (WXYZ) — LAPEER, Mich. — Carrie Sparks was sitting in the front seat of her car, just steps away from the emergency room of McLaren Hospital in ...