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  • Tools
    PDF Preview: General Zero Suicide Organizational Self-Study
    This is a PDF preview of the questions in the Zero Suicide Organizational Self-Study.
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    Getting Started with Zero Suicide

    Wondering how to get started with Zero Suicide in your organization? This resource outlines 10 steps to getting started.

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    Zero Suicide Work Plan Template
    This is a downloadable Excel spreadsheet of the Zero Suicide Work Plan Template, which should be used by an implementation team after completing the Zero Suicide Organizational Self-Study.
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    What is Zero Suicide?
    This is a two-page, printable PDF that describes the Zero Suicide approach and provides a brief history of the initiative.
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    Sample Letter to Staff about Zero Suicide Workforce Survey
    This letter can be used and adapted to request that staff complete the Zero Suicide Workforce Survey.
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    Suicide as a Never Event in New York State

    The New York State Office of Mental Health reviewed suicides occurring within the public mental health system over several years. This report aims to put New York State on a path toward systematically preventing suicide for people in care.

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    Depression Care Effort Brings Dramatic Drop in Large HMO Population’s Suicide Rate

    Hampton , T. (2010). Depression care effort brings dramatic drop in large HMO population’s suicide rate. JAMA, 303(19), 1903–1905.

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    Suicide and Malpractice Liability: Assessing and Revising Policies, Procedures, and Practice in Outpatient Settings

    Jobes , D. A., & Berman, A. L. (1993). Suicide and malpractice liability: Assessing and revising policies, procedures, and practice in outpatient settings. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 24(1), 91.

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    High‐Reliability Health Care: Getting There from Here

    Chassin , M. R., & Loeb, J. M. (2013). High‐reliability health care: Getting there from here. Milbank Quarterly, 91(3), 459–490.

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    Improving Patient and Worker Safety: Opportunities for Synergy, Collaboration and Innovation

    The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare works with hospitals and health care systems that are committed to being high-reliability organizations and reaching zero on many key health outcomes, including hand washing, surgical site infection, and wrong-side surgery.

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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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