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    Example Policy for Safety Precautions for Behavioral Health Units

    This HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital policy includes safety precautions, behavior monitoring, and safety rounding for behavioral health units. 

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    Example Policy related to safety precautions

    An example of a policy from Hospital Sisters Health Centers titled "Safety Precautions: Suicide and Self Harm" for Non-Behavioral Health Units. It includes a diagram of a care pathway connecting safety precautions to levels of risk. 

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    Suicide and Self Harm Policy

    Policy for screening outside of behavioral health setting

     

    Given to EDC staff by:Toni Simonson, PhD, FACHE
    Executive Director – Behavioral Health
    HSHS & Prevea Health
    Office 715-717-7522
    Cell 715-225-5426

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    Crosswalk of Zero Suicide and The Joint Commission

    This crosswalk will help organizations  accredited by The Joint Commission (TJC) understand how Zero Suicide supports TJC suicide prevention requirements. 

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    SAFE-T with C-SSRS Lifetime and Recent

    This link downloads a copy of the SAFE-T with C-SSRS Recent and Lifetime assessment document. 

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    Accuracy of Level of Care Determination among Clinical Staff with AMSR Training: Analysis of Inpatient Readmission within Ten Days of Placement to the Outpatient Care
    In this study, Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk (AMSR) was evaluated for its effectiveness in suicide risk management.
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    Policy on Suicide Safer Care
    This is the Suicide Safer Care policy from Clackamas County, Oregon.
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    Workforce Survey Summary Example
    This is an example of a 1-pager to share with staff, leadership, or a board of directors that summarizes significant findings from the Workforce Survey.
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    Policy for Suicide Precuations/Behavior Monitoring/Safety Rounding

    Example from Sacred Heart Hospital of a policy on suicide precautions, behavior monitoring and safety rounding in an inpatient psychiatric facility. 

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    Policy for Provision of Care, Treatment and Services
    This is an example of a suicide and self-harm policy from the Hospital Sisters Health System.

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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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