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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Brunswick's ombud found psychiatric patients were forced to urinate and defecate on the floor and faced sexual and physical assault while improperly restrained by staff. Ombud Marie-France ...

When other child psychiatric hospitals in Virginia turn patients away, the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents becomes the safety net. The Commonwealth Center serves youth who require ...

The state’s watchdog agency for people with disabilities has found that a for-profit psychiatric hospital in Southern California abused patients for years by excessively and improperly strapping them ...