California Atty. Gen. Says Nursing Director Controlled Patients with Drugs. Jan. 5, 2010— -- What happened in a bucolic nursing home nestled in the California mountains starting in 2003 shocked ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declined nearly 40 percent nationally in recent years as the federal government, states and the nursing home industry placed ...

DALLASTOWN — In the three years before his death in 2021, Harold Garretson fell more than 30 times in various central Pennsylvania care facilities. Angela Perkinson believes many of her father's ...

Government policies aimed at curbing excessive use of powerful psychiatric drugs for dementia patients in nursing homes are probably having an unintended side effect: greater use of anti-seizure ...

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 ...

The inspection of the Melville Unit in Edinburgh was the first in a series of visits to psychiatric wards ordered following ...

Restraint is a barbaric business in psychiatry. It would be an understatement to say it was savage. Didn't the psychiatrist tell me that everything they do is to protect the patient? Why do they take ...

SMITHFIELD, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Department of Health has temporarily suspended the license of a nursing assistant after she was charged with assaulting a dementia patient earlier this year, ...