Accreditation and Standards

The 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention is meant to address gaps in the field and to guide, motivate, and promote a more coordinated and comprehensive approach to suicide prevention in communities across the country.

This video is part three of three in the Zero Suicide: Meeting Accreditation Standards video series.

This video is part two of three in the Zero Suicide: Meeting Accreditation Standards video series.

This video is part one of three in the Zero Suicide: Meeting Accreditation Standards video series.

Create specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely Zero Suicide goals with the Zero Suicide Data Dashboard. 

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.

Roadmap to Resilience by Dr.

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.