Webinar Recorded March 19, 2025 De-Risking Behavioral Health Environments

Presenter: Brian Solverson

Session Description: Behavioral and mental health facilities have very unique and specific safety challenges in order to maintain a therapeutic healing environment, while also being proactive around these challenges.  These can include the following:

• Patient self-harm: the risk of patient self-harm or loss of life and the potential for litigation
• Non-Compliance: Accreditation issues due to poor ligature mitigation and risk control
• Under (or over) Specification of a product: unsuitable products lead to financial loss and health and safety issues
• Staff Injury: the risk of harm to staff and the potential for litigation around violent incidents or injury
• Slow Patient Recovery: poorly designed environment impacts patient recovery times and damages hospital reputation
• Incorrect assembly of product: leading to safety concerns, damage, litigation, and financial loss

Learning Objectives:

• Education/Awareness
• The need for further discuss, education, support

CHPA/CE Credit Awarded: 1