Hennepin Healthcare is phasing out the use of handcuffs by its paramedics to secure unruly patients, after its leaders checked and discovered that its urban ambulance agency was among the last in the ...

Prosecutors released new evidence against the Illinois EMS workers accused of killing their patient. An audio recording from the ambulance showed one EMS worker refusing to take vital signs. An expert ...

A Tulsa police officer who has spent more than a week hospitalized after attempting to subdue a combative ambulance patient “is making good progress,” the Police Department announced Thursday.

The Arkansas Department of Health released a report detailing a death at a Human Development Center (HDC) in Southeast Arkansas. HDCs house Arkansans with severe intellectual or emotional disabilities ...

The appropriate use of patient restraints in health care settings can keep both patients and hospital staff safe from injury, but they are often overused and abused. It’s important to know what the ...

Two Los Angeles County supervisors are calling on health officials to find alternatives to physically restraining patients, voicing concerns after a Times investigation found an L.A. County-run ...

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 ...

Seven Virginia sheriff’s deputies and three hospital employees are facing second-degree murder charges after a patient died while being admitted to a state mental health facility earlier this month.