Psychiatr News October 6, 2006
Volume 41, Number 19, page 34
© 2006 American Psychiatric Association
JCAHO Requirement
The Joint Commission on Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) will institute a
requirement on January 1, 2007, that every facility or organization that is
surveyed under the JCAHO's hospital or behavioral health care standards have a
plan for identifying patients who are at risk for suicide.
To help organizations comply with the new mandate, APA and the National
Association of Psychiatric Health Systems (NAPHS) will sponsor a telephone
conference call on Wednesday, November 1, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern
time.
The experts scheduled to participate in the conference call are Douglas
Jacobs, M.D., president and CEO of Screening for Mental Health Inc. and chair
of the APA work group that developed the Practice Guideline for the Assessment
and Treatment of Patients With Suicidal Behaviors, and Robert Wise, M.D., vice
president for standards in JCAHO's Division of Standard and Survey Methods.
Discussants on the call have expertise in implementing suicide risk assessment
programs.
The fee for the program is $150 for members of APA or NAPHS; it is $225 for
nonmembers.
Additional information about the program, including how to register,
is available online at
<www.naphs.org>
or by phone from Brenna Zwanzig at (202) 393-6700, ext. 106.
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