F&A Workshop: Improving Active Treatment (Part 1: Understanding & Meeting CMS Expectations, Pages 33-48 provide treatment plan documentation suggestions and sample wording courtesy of Hagedorn State Hospital, NJ)
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline1106 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention service available to anyone in suicidal crisis. Make staff aware (especially SW) and include in Pt/Family discharge information for pts at risk/with relevant past history. Booklets available.
Suicide in secure psychiatric facilities1106 - By Gordon H.: Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 8:408–417, 2002. contains useful lists of risk factors for various psychiatric illnesses and hospital settings
Mental Health Environment of Care Checklist1106 (MHEOCC.xls1106) - This is an outgrowth of the Veterans Affairs Patient Safety Workgroup whose Root Cause Analysis Database revealed that approximately 70% of VA suicides/attempted suicides were either hangings, cutting with a sharp object or drug overdoses, with hanging the largest category. Virtually all of the hangings used some environmental anchor that could be modified to reduce the risk of harm; and 39% of the cutting incidents used razor blades. Ergo this checklist. [Contrib by V. Knight, RN, PHD]
[MS_1A3j]Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Grand Rounds, and the ACGME’s Core Competencies[HTM1007] (PDF1007) by Steven J. Kravet, MD, Eric Howell, MD, Scott M. Wright, MD of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Add or Modify a CMS or TJC Topic: As an SPHCC member, you may initially select up to 3 topics relating to CMS and TJC for your Custom Resource Page. We will then pull supportive references from our compliance libraries and place them on this customized page for your hospital. Now you have even faster access to the issues of greatest interest and/or concern for you. Three times a year (Feb, June and Oct) you can also trade out one or more of your topics for new ones. Just use the 'Contact Us' link to submit your request. [Note: Additional topics may also be purchased at any time]
Environmental Suicide-Related Assessment