Emergency Department

The Guidelines for Integrated Suicide-Related Crisis and Follow-Up Care in Emergency Departments and Other

This webinar provides an overview of the intersection between intimate partner violence (IPV) and suicide in the United States. The presentation addresses considerations for screening and assessing for suicide risk in individuals who have experienced IPV.

Health care systems play an integral role in suicide prevention. Data show that 83% of people who die by suicide have seen a health care provider within a year preceding their death. 1 In 2012, the U.S.

The Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Primary Care Practices contains tools, information, and resources to implement state-of-the-art suicide prevention practices and overcome barriers to treating suicidal patients in the primary care setting.

In this short video, Dr. Ed Boudreaux, a professor with the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Department of Emergency Medicine, highlights the importance of developing clear protocols to guide front-line emergency room staff in suicide screening and detection.

In this short video, Dr.

The Seattle Children's Hospital created a Zero Suicide Initiative Pathway for use with children and youth presenting for care to allow for standardized processes for suicide risk screening and assessment for triage to resources across the organization.  Included are versions for use in the

To help close these gaps that put individuals at increased risk for suicide after a psychiatric hospitalization, the Action Alliance (Care Transitions Advisory Group) developed 

The Joint Commission released a revision of National Patient Safety Goal 15.01.01 in May 2019 with seven new and revised elements of performance applicable to all Joint Commission-accredited hospitals and behavioral health care organizations effective July 1, 2019.