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    Zero Suicide in the Emergency Department: The Chickasaw Nation Experience
    In this video, Dr. Shannon Dial shares key elements of success for integrating Zero Suicide in an emergency department.
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    Seattle Children's Hospital Zero Suicide Initiative Pathways
    This resource includes standardized processes for suicide risk screening and assessment for use with children and youth in the emergency department and within inpatient behavioral health care.
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    Best Practices in Care Transitions for Individuals with Suicide Risk: Inpatient Care to Outpatient Care
    This report describes evidence-based practices for improving clinical care and outcomes for people with a history of suicide risk during the critical period of transition from inpatient to outpatient care.
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    Joint Commission R3 Report Issue 18: National Patient Safety Goal for Suicide Prevention
    This May 2019 revision of the National Patient Safety Goal 15.01.01 has seven new and revised elements of performance applicable to all Joint Commission-accredited hospitals and behavioral health care organizations effective July 1, 2019.
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    Critical Crossroads: Pediatric Mental Health Care in the Emergency Department
    This toolkit is designed to support hospitals in providing high-quality, effective emergency care to pediatric patients in psychiatric distress.
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    Suicide Prevention Resources to support Joint Commission Accredited organizations implementation of NPSG 15.01.01, revised November 2018

    The Joint Commission has released a new compendium of Suicide Prevention resources, Zero Suicide among them, to support the implementation of National Patient Safety Goals 15.01.01, revised November 2018. 

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    Centerstone MOU ED Enhanced Follow Up Template

    Centerstone of Tennessee developed this Memorandum of Understanding with emergency departments to enhance follow-up services for clients.

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    Caring for Adult Patients with Suicide Risk: A Consensus Guide for Emergency Departments

    SPRC designed this guide to assist Emergency Department (ED) health care professionals with decisions about the care and discharge of patients with suicide risk. Its main goal is to improve patient outcomes after discharge. The guide helps ED caregivers answer these questions:

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    The Patient Safety Screener (PSS-3): A Brief Tool to Detect Suicide Risk in Acute Care Settings

    The Suicide Prevention Resource Center has created a seven-minute video about The Patient Safety Screener (PSS-3), a tool for identifying patients in the acute care setting who may be at risk of suicide.

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Education Development Center, the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, and the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention are able to make this web site available thanks to support from Universal Health Services (UHS), the Zero Suicide Institute at EDC, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (grant 1 U79 SM0559945).

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