Where did the data come from? To report this story, The Times analyzed data collected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency that has gathered restraint information from ...

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 ...

In the chaotic environment of an emergency room, hospital staffers sometimes face the question of whether to use physical restraints when a patient is experiencing a behavioral crisis. Using ...

Two Los Angeles County supervisors are calling on health officials to find alternatives to physically restraining patients, voicing concerns after a Times investigation found an L.A. County-run ...

Residents of bankrupt long-term healthcare facilities are more likely to suffer adverse care outcomes, according to a new working paper released this week. Researchers found patients were more likely ...

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 ...

Although the use of physical restraint was generally uncommon in the emergency department (ED), Black patients were more likely to experience this during patient encounters compared with white ...

A review published by the Baylor College of Medicine found adult Black patients were significantly more likely to be physically restrained in emergency departments compared with all other patients.

DALLASTOWN — In the three years before his death in 2021, Harold Garretson fell more than 30 times in various central Pennsylvania care facilities. Angela Perkinson believes many of her father's ...

Black patients presenting with psychiatric disorders to hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the US have significantly higher rates of chemical restraint than their White counterparts, new ...

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 address ...