Let’s begin again, begin the begin: CMS ligature risks codified!

May 13, 2019
Mac's Safety Space - Volume 13 Issue 5
Environment and Facilities, Behavioral & Mental Health
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

While I have little...Read More »

Comment now on CMS revisions to patient harm requirements

May 7, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 1 Issue 6
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health

If you are among those frustrated by having to implement costly, time-consuming, and seemingly ever-changing requirements on ligature risk and...Read More »

Like the dust that settles all around me: I got those low-down TJC FAQ blues

May 6, 2019
Mac's Safety Space - Volume 13 Issue 5
Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

I don’t know if...Read More »

Joint Commission wants de-escalation training

May 1, 2019
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 30 Issue 5
Behavioral & Mental Health

The Joint Commission (TJC) released ...Read More »

Depression screening and treatment

May 1, 2019
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 30 Issue 5
Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

In the January edition of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, a study named “...Read More »

Talk down: Joint Commission on de-escalation

April 1, 2019
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 20 Issue 4
Behavioral & Mental Health, Environment and Facilities, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety

The practice of de-escalation isn’t as heavily researched or defined as other best practices. Even TJC’s alert cautions that there’s been little...Read More »

Depression screening and treatment

April 1, 2019
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 20 Issue 4
Behavioral & Mental Health, Quality & Errors, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and 16.2 million Americans experienced a major depressive episode in 2016. It’s also...Read More »

Keeping an eye on things: Managing behavioral health patients

March 20, 2019
Mac's Safety Space - Volume 13 Issue 3
Environment and Facilities, Behavioral & Mental Health
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

What, again?!?...Read More »

Suicide Prevention National Patient Safety Goal updated

March 1, 2019
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 20 Issue 3
Patient Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health

The Joint Commission (TJC) announced revisions to its suicide prevention National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) November 27. NPSG 15.01.01 now has...Read More »

Ask Suicide-Screening Questionnaire (ASQ)

February 5, 2019
Tools
Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety

Suicide screening tool created by the National Institue of Mental Health 

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