Ligature-risk requirements

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.

acute care or emergency departments (EDs) [see sidebar, Page 31], by using helpful checklists and tools available and learning more about this topic [see resource boxes]. In addition, The Joint Commission gathered a panel of experts in 2017 to offer direction on appro-priate safeguards to curb suicide in health care settings.

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