The authors of the “six core strategies” say Dr. Nadiya Sunderji’s refusal to involve herself in Waypoint’s “highly unusual” use of psychiatric seclusion is an “abrogation of duty.”
An Ontario psychiatric hospital that keeps some patients in isolation for years — and in at least one case, decades — says it has adopted the internationally recognized best practices to reduce the use of seclusion.
But the U.S.-based creators of those best practices say that's clearly not the case.
Waypoint Centre for Mental Health is violating its own policy to use psychiatric seclusion only as an option of last resort, new…
“The effects of isolation extend far beyond children’s time in the hospital,” writes medical student Anna Tsioulias.
The Ministry has ordered an independent probe and halted new admissions.
Exclusive: After years languishing on indefinite jail terms, hundreds of prisoners' mental health has deteriorated to the point…
In a poll last year, 74% of Ontario emergency doctors cited severe or critical overcrowding preventing them from providing timely…
Many women most in need of continuity of care never see it in an unfair system
