Restrictive practices in mental health settings—such as physical restraint and seclusion—are meant to be a last resort, used only when patients pose a risk to themselves or others. In 2021 and 2022 ...
JAMES CITY CO., Va. (WAVY) – A patient who escaped from a mental health facility in James City County Saturday morning has been located and arrested. Glenn Jefferson Large Jr., 50, went missing around ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The wife of a man who escaped from a Gardner hospital where he was being held for a mental health evaluation is demanding answers ...
WMCHealth, the largest hospital system in the Hudson Valley, routinely discharged vulnerable mental health patients without adequate evaluation or stabilization measures and improperly kept inpatient ...
UPMC hospital police on Friday charged a patient after an attack against a doctor and four officers in a mental health pod in downtown Harrisburg. Officers who work for the hospital’s police ...
Editor’s note: This story was updated to add comment from MDHHS. Michigan isn’t doing a sufficient job protecting the rights of public mental health services recipients. The Office of Recipient Rights ...
It’s tempting to dismiss the proliferation of labels as a fad, but there’s more to this phenomenon than a simple culture-war reading allows ...