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Nursing homes cut back on restraints (The Charlotte Observer)
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 greater emphasis on eliminating what once was a common practice. Overall, about 5.9 percent of 1.5 million long-term patients were physically restrained repeatedly in 2006. That’s a drop from 9.7 percent in 2002. …
Nursing Homes Cut Back on Restraints (ABC News)
Use of physical restraints on patients declines greatly in nursing homes.
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Use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declines in Louisiana (The Shreveport Times)
Louisiana nursing homes have reduced their use of restraints considerably, but the percentage of residents who were tied into their beds or chairs was still fourth-highest in the nation in 2006, the same spot it held in 2002, according to federal data.
Nursing Homes Doing Away With Restraints (KSLA-TV Shreveport)
“When I first came here we used belt restraints, we used vest restraints, we used mittens, we used wrist restraints,” says nursing director Becky Martin.
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Nursing home will fight fine over sex offender who was patient (The Pantagraph)
BLOOMINGTON — A Bloomington nursing home will appeal a $22,500 fine levied by the Illinois Department of Public Health for allegedly failing to protect residents from a sex offender who was a patient at the facility.
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