A federal probe into Illinois’ treatment of disabled people will examine abuse and neglect allegations at state-run ...

Patients who are subjected to abuse on mental health wards do not formally complain as they “do not want to expose themselves to any risk of revenge” from staff, academics have suggested. It comes ...

CCHR Demands Increased Medicaid/Medicare Oversight, Accountability, and Criminal Prosecution in Response to National Scandal ...

They are hiring people who are not interested in giving patients the quality care they need. This has resulted in multiple incidents of abuse. There was a case of sexual abuse and multiple ...

A former staff member is accused of telling one teen he’d “send someone” to her house if she reported the misconduct, the ...

The public inquiry into alleged abuse of patients at Muckamore Abbey Hospital concludes on Monday.

A former Yellow Springs doctor was formally sentenced to probation in Greene County Common Pleas Court on Friday, after taking a plea deal in February. Donald Gronbeck was sentenced to probation on a ...

A Franklin County dentist, who twice has been suspended by the Ohio State Dental Board for alleged substance abuse, is under ...

The plaintiffs, all referred to as Jane Does, filed the civil lawsuit Tuesday against the Detroit Behavioral Institute in Wayne Circuit Court. The case also names the institute's parent company, ...

has started offering chaperones to all patients undergoing sensitive medical exams in an effort to reduce their anxiety and protect them from potential abuse. The new policy reflects a growing ...

Almost all the victims are his former patients, and almost all of them were children at the time of the alleged abuse. The average age of the patients he is accused of sexually assaulting was 11.

A 63-year-old janitor accused of sexually assaulting a patient at a Lincoln nursing home was arrested on Saturday.