The ward on which a patient died after he was left unattended for nearly a day is closed, and the 16 Cherry Hospital staff members on duty during that time have been disciplined, Department of Health ...

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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 ...

More than 5000 patients with mental illness have been sent more than 100 km away from their homes for vital treatment, complained experts. In 2016, Jeremy Hunt, the then health secretary and now ...

Patients who are subjected to abuse on mental health wards do not formally complain as they “do not want to expose themselves ...

The nurse says some patients are sleeping on mattresses in interview rooms, seclusion rooms, and sometimes in other wards due to a lack of beds.

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 ...

Outrage is a mild word for what was expressed by elected officials and community leaders at yesterday’s hastily called press conference in front of Borough Hall in Staten Island. They accused St.

PHOENIX — The Valleywise Health System celebrated the opening of the final behavioral health ward at its mental health hospital in west Phoenix on Wednesday. This brings the Valleywise Behavioral ...

Children presenting with 'high-risk' behaviours are being cared for in NHS paediatric wards that may put them and others at risk of harm, according to a new report from a health care safety watchdog.

A mental health unit where patients were found to have suffered "institutional abuse" could be demolished in a hospital revamp. The Tawel Fan ward at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, ...