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Coffeyville Regional Medical Center in Coffeyville, Kansas
As a Joint Commission-accredited facility, Coffeyville Regional Medical Center in Coffeyville, Kansas, recognizes the importance of assessing and identifying patients at risk for suicide.
THE PROBLEM
While working to create documentation on the matter, staff learned about their electronic health record vendor Meditech s impending Depression Screening and Suicide Prevention Toolkit. In addition to satisfying the Joint Commission s requirements, staff learned this toolkit would help its clinicians make informed decisions about suicidal patients. We were concerned with how to perform additional screenings for depression and suicide risk on every patient, said Amber K. Beaumont, RN, clinical analyst at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Patient and clinician time is very precious, and adding two multi-question screening tools seemed like a daunting task. That is why we were so excited to hear that Meditech was working on