Psych patients at this hospital were tied down and ignored, records show

For every 1,000 hours that psychiatric patients spent at a rural North Carolina hospital from July 1 through December 31, 2013, more than 800 of those hours were spent in some kind of physical restraint, according to an analysis of the most recent figures from CMS. Park Ridge Health in Hendersonville, North Carolina, is an outlier in an industry that two decades ago decided that the harm restraint causes to patients outweighs any potential benefits to their health or to hospital staff.