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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federal inspection of a Connecticut hospital revealed that a patient with severe physical and mental issues died as the result of being held in physical restraints, as recorded in the patient’s ...

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 ...

One New York hospital’s security officers used a police-style “bent arm bar” hold on a pediatric patient under age 19, breaking her arm. Another hospital’s security team handcuffed a patient to a ...

A 16-year-old girl dies after being physically restrained by staff members during a disruption in a Katy facility for troubled kids. Officials defend the control technique, called the "basket hold," ...

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 ...

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 ...

At least 50 hospital patients were improperly restrained in New York between 2015 and 2018, spanning men and women handcuffed, hit with batons, drugged, and left strapped to beds up to 12 hours ...

Because the hospital is a cancer center, "we explain to them that they might be at higher risk of confusion—this could be cancer tumor–related; chemotherapy can increase confusion—and also our ...