The Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Courthouse, home of the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Virginia. (Acroterion/ Wikipedia Commons via Courthouse News) RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — Duke University law students argued to ...

Seclusion is a protocol used in hospital settings when a patient is displaying unsafe behaviors. Many organizations, including U.S. health care accrediting body the Joint Commission, say that it ...

The Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Courthouse, home of the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Virginia. (Acroterion/ Wikipedia Commons via Courthouse News) RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — The Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that an ...

A Western State Hospital mental patient who has been kept in seclusion or restraints for some 20 years was singled out a decade ago in federal investigations of the Staunton facility and in other ...

FREDERICKSBURG -- A variance from state regulations that allowed a severely ill mental-health patient to be held in seclusion at Western State Hospital in Staunton expired almost a year ago. At a ...

HELENA – An attorney for four patients at Montana State Hospital who claim in a lawsuit that they are subjected to long-term isolation nearly 24 hours a day made a final argument in court Tuesday for ...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has uncovered widespread allegations of physical and sexual assaults by staff on patients at a mental health hospital. Inspectors saw CCTV footage of staff at St ...

Seclusion is a protocol used in hospital settings when a patient is displaying unsafe behaviors. Many organizations, including U.S. health care accrediting body the Joint Commission, say that it ...