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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) — Two Champaign County Sheriff’s Department Correctional Officers received awards Wednesday evening ...

Aggressive patients remain a reality at the St Giles Hospital, but officials say modern methods now focus on safety, de-escalation and protection, not punishment. St Giles Hospital Acting Medical ...

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 ...

Emergency departments (EDs) in the U.S. have seen a surge in patient visits for mental health conditions over the past decade. And frequently these visits include episodes of patient agitation, or ...