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N.B. Health Networks Respond to Report on Seclusion Rooms at Psych Hospital - New Brunswick
Vitalité Health Network accepts 15 reform recommendations after a report revealed prolonged restraints and unsanitary conditions affecting 11 patients since 2021.
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N.B. health authority apologizes over patients being assaulted, left soiled while in restraints
Vitalité Health Network says it will take action to prevent the kind of mistreatment of psychiatric patients that was detailed in an ombud report this week — treatment that one relative called 'inhumane' and 'heartbreaking.'
·Canada
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New Brunswick health network apologizes for use of restraints at psychiatric facility
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's francophone health network is apologizing for the way it used restraints and seclusion rooms at an adult psychiatric facility in the province's north.
·Hamilton, Canada
Read Full ArticleA survey by the NB Ombud revealed this week a sometimes excessive use of restraint measures to control patients, such as the use of long-term isolation rooms. The situation has improved considerably, according to a Vitality framework.
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