Facilities across the country, whether they are ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) designated hospitals, designation hopefuls, or just seeking to improve their quality of care, struggle daily with ...
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 ...
New research sheds light on the characteristics of patients who are placed in physical restraint while receiving emergency room care. Most patients restrained in emergency departments fall into two ...
A hospital in central Pennsylvania has been cited by the Pennsylvania Department of Health after a patient died while being placed in restraints. An investigation into Geisinger Holy Spirit Hospital’s ...
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 ...
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Numerous patients described being restrained during emergency room visits and the lasting negative effects the experience had on their well-being, according to research published Jan. 24 in JAMA ...
State inspectors uncovered issues with patient restraint monitoring and building requirements at Westerville, Ohio-based Mount Carmel St. Ann’s hospital, reports The Columbus Dispatch. State health ...
A mental health advocacy group this week said the city-owned psychiatric hospital in Southeast Washington has increased its use of restraint and seclusion on patients despite regulations designed to ...
A Pennsylvania hospital was cited by the state Department of Health for restraining a patient who later died under its care. The health department issued its citation against Geisinger Holy Spirit ...
A Laredo lawmaker who hoped that a physical-restraint tragedy in Katy last fall would help to focus attention on the need for new patient-restraint regulations instead came away empty-handed when the ...
A patient at Beaumont Hospital in Troy burned one of the restraints on his bed with a cigarette lighter, according to a police report. Troy officers were called to the hospital at 44201 Dequindre Road ...