Ligature Risk: Continuing to Safeguard your Hospitals
Channel: Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority
Date: 2019-11-25

Melanie A. Motts, RN, BSN, senior patient safety liaison at the Patient Safety Authority; Carol VanZile, LCSW, director of behavioral health regulatory compliance accreditation at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH); Shawnna Baney-Shaw, RN, risk manager at Mount Nittany Medical Center; and Tina Kephart, RN-BC, director of behavioral health at Mount Nittany Medical Center, identify and discuss two Pennsylvania healthcare facilities' perspectives on living through a unitwide renovation, assess ligature and suicide risk in various inpatient care settings, and summarize information and resources on improving ligature risk assessment and mitigation.