In the July issue of The Joint Commission Perspectives, responses to frequently asked questions from the field were published, relating to the suicide risk recommendations issued over the past several months. Since we’ve received numerous questions from readers...
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The Joint Commission recently clarified some of its recommendations regarding ligature risks in the hospital environment. In the July issue of TJC Perspectives, they published responses to a set of FAQs received from the field. Most of the responses are essentially...
read moreIn our January newsletter, we covered the suicide prevention recommendations issued by TJC earlier this year for non-hospital behavioral health settings. These were published in the January 2018 issue of TJC Perspectives and apply to residential, partial...
read moreIntense scrutiny on ligature risks continues for inpatient psychiatric units, both in freestanding psychiatric hospitals and inpatient psychiatric units of med/surg hospitals. As the field continues to work toward making these settings ligature resistant, it’s...
read moreCMS Memo As you are well aware, psychiatric hospitals and inpatient psychiatric units of med/surg hospitals continue to grapple with the challenge of eliminating suicide risks in their environment and how this will be evaluated during TJC surveys. TJC has been working...
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