Ligature Risks: Ensuring Compliance with the CMS Hospital CoPs and TJC Requirements 2018

  • 28 Jun 2018
  • Webinar

Description

Ligature Risks: Ensuring Compliance with the CMS Hospital CoPs and TJC Requirements 2018 is a webinar dedicated to the amended CMS requirements for preventing ligature risk and self-harm from patients that are suicidal.

Ligature Risks: Ensuring Compliance with the CMS Hospital CoPs and TJC Requirements 2018 covers topics such as:

  • Introduction
  • CMS Hospital Ligature Risks
  • Amends tag 144 and 701
  • 13 page memo and manual updated
  • Suicide 10th leading cause of death
  • Deficiency reports
  • Anchor points and examples
  • What is a ligature risk? CMS definition
  • Education recommendations
  • Policy and procedure requirements
  • Patient assessment
  • Competency requirements
  • Correction of environmental risk
  • Environmental assessment
  • Things to do to reduce ligature risk
  • Design guide for creating safe rooms
  • VA mental health guide and checklist
  • Documentation requirements
  • Ligature resistant requirements
  • When are sitters or 1:1 observers required?
  • 13 requirements to prevent suicide
  • Joint Commission
  • Sentinel event reduction doors and soft suicide prevention doors
  • Recommendation for psych unit, psych hospital, and general acute care settings including emergency departments
  • Shower curtains
  • Ceilings, beds, and toilets
  • EC.02.06.01 EP 1 requirements
  • SAFER matrix and when at risk for getting RFI
  • Suicide risk reduction
  • Dedicated verses non-dedicated spaces
  • TJC ligature risk FAQ
  • Zero suicide campaign
  • NPSG 15
  • TJC sentinel event alerts on suicide and SEA 56
  • Suicide prevention resource center
  • Resources and tools of the trade
  • Suicide prevention guidelines for training
  • VA/DoD Clinical practice guidelines
  • Patient health questionnaire PHQ-9 and 3
  • Design guide for built environment of behavioral health facilities
  • Patient safety secondary screener
  • ED-SAFE screeners
  • Environmental Assessment
  • ED" Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire SBQ-R
  • SAFE-T Assessment
  • C-SSRS Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale
  • NY patient safety standards guidelines
  • Suicide Prevention Decision Support Tool and more

Ligature Risks: Ensuring Compliance with the CMS Hospital CoPs and TJC Requirements 2018 intended for:

  • All staff, nurses, physicians and providers at Psychiatric hospitals
  • All staff, nurses, physicians and providers on the hospital behavioral health unit
  • All staff, nurses, physicians and providers on hospital units where suicidal patients are taken care of such as ICU, medical-surgical units, OB and post-partum, and outpatient areas
  • All staff, nurses, physicians, and providers in hospital emergency departments
  • Hospital legal counsel
  • All hospital risk managers
  • CEO, COO, CNO, and nurse supervisors
  • Patient safety officer
  • Director of maintenance and facility services
  • Chief medical officers
  • Materials management
  • Biomedical engineering
  • Security
  • Environmental Services
  • Quality improvement coordinator
  • Director in charge of environment of care requirements and staff
  • Director of Regulatory Affairs
  • Compliance officer
  • Nurse educator
  • Board members
  • All department directors/nurse managers such as ED, ICU, CCU, Med-surg managers, outpatient, etc.
  • Clinic and outpatient managers
  • Anyone who is responsible to ensure compliance with the CMS hospital conditions of participation and the Joint Commission standards

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Business: Internal Audit & Compliance, Management
Health & Medicine: Healthcare, Hospitals & Clinics, Medical device, Medical laboratories, Medical technology, Nursing
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Technology: Materials

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