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30 // NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2018 SAFETYIMAGE COURTESY OF ASHEBY CHAD BEEBE, AIA, CHFM, CFPS, CBO, FASHEL igature-risk requirementsSeparating fact from fiction in suicide preventionFew events in health care facilities are as catastrophic and preventable as a patient suicide. Yet data indicate that suicide incidents are a serious problem, which suggests that hospitals must do a better job not only of identifying and monitoring patients at risk but removing the means to accomplish suicide in the physical facts are sobering: The suicide rate has increased more than 25 percent nationwide from 1999 to 2016, per a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, which also found that 54 per-cent of those who died by suicide in that period did not suffer from a mental health condition. According to the CDC, suicide is now the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, taking more than 40,000 lives a year.
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS. When it comes to EDs, note that they don’t need to meet the same standards as inpatient psy-chiatric units to be regarded as ligature- resistant settings. ED patients commonly need equipment and devices to treat and monitor their medical issues. Consequently, making the ED environment completely
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