Black patients presenting with psychiatric disorders to hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the US have significantly higher rates of chemical restraint than their White counterparts, new ...

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's ombudswoman released a damning report Tuesday on the province's use of seclusion rooms and physical restraints in adult psychiatric facilities, practices she said ...

A federal inspection determined patients’ rights were violated at the South Dakota Human Services Center in Yankton — a state-run mental health hospital — when workers misused restraints to control ...

A Mountain Top man and former CEO for state-run psych hospitals has gained international recognition for a lifetime of work in ending long-used seclusion and restraint practices on patients in ...

St. Elizabeths, the District-run psychiatric hospital, is riddled with problems such as daily physical assaults on patients and staff, medication mismanagement, and the warehousing of patients cleared ...

Almost two years on from the heartbreaking death of Codie Lee Black, 18, her family and friends want to see changes in the law to protect those in mental health care from what her mum called "brutal ...

Inspections across 15 mental healthcare locations found varying levels of compliance on regulations, standards and rules ...

The Mental Welfare Commission find some improvements at Melville House, but say more needs to be done to protect both ...