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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Improving behavioral healthcare: Examples of unnecessary rules

February 10, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

“One thing behavioral healthcare can do is get rid of unnecessary rules—rules that have been developed for staff convenience or organizational reasons like cost, rather than for patient comfort and ca...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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CDC: Suicide deaths increased 2.6% in 2022, according to provisional datad

February 10, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health

On August 10, the CDC released its latest provisional suicide estimates for 2022, showing suicide deaths on the rise. There were approximately 49,499 suicide deaths in 2022, or 1,316 more than in 2021...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Improving customer service in behavioral health

February 10, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

While the term might invoke images of restaurants, hotels, and store clerks rather than healthcare, customer service is about working with stressed, unhappy, or potentially violent customers/patients ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Addressing moral injury in healthcare (Q&A, Part 2)

February 10, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Healthcare Staff, Workplace safety

The following is part two of our interview with Maya Bizri, MD, MPH, a psychiatrist and consultation-liaison psychiatrist looking for solutions to provide support for healthcare providers working in l...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Moral injury doesn’t just happen to doctors in war zones (Q&A, Part 1)

February 10, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Healthcare Staff, Workplace safety

Moral injury is taking a mental and emotional toll on healthcare providers everywhere, from those treating refugees from the wars in Ukraine and Sudan to those at home writing prescriptions they know ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Q&A: Customer service to promote better behavioral healthcare

February 10, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors, Healthcare Staff

For the good of providers and patients, behavioral healthcare facilities need to prioritize good customer service, says Kevin Ann Huckshorn, PhD, MSN, RN, ICADC, a licensed and certified mental health...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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APA: Social media use poses risks to kids and teens’ mental health

February 10, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Health Equity

Like all tools, social media can be beneficial or harmful depending on how it’s used. And like all tools, when tools are used by the young, inexperienced, and unsupervised, they can cut themselves on ...

Mac's Safety Space

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Mac’s Safety Space: To be or not to be—that is the risk assessment!

June 26, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Behavioral & Mental Health, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant A couple of fairly short (and somewhat disparate, but the risk assessment process can figure in both) items this week: one a question/thought relating...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Pediatric NPs gain a new tool to strengthen mental healthcare for young patients

February 10, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health, Healthcare Staff

The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) is launching NAPNAP Cares, with online continuing education (CE) courses designed to support pediatric-focused NPs and advanced pract...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Surgeon general: Loneliness just as harmful as smoking

February 10, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Health Equity

The report makes the case with hard science and research that loneliness not only impacts a patient’s mental health, but their physical health as well, including: 29% increased risk of heart dis...

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Improving behavioral healthcare: Examples of unnecessary rules

CDC: Suicide deaths increased 2.6% in 2022, according to provisional datad

Improving customer service in behavioral health

Addressing moral injury in healthcare (Q&A, Part 2)

Moral injury doesn’t just happen to doctors in war zones (Q&A, Part 1)

Q&A: Customer service to promote better behavioral healthcare

APA: Social media use poses risks to kids and teens’ mental health

Mac’s Safety Space: To be or not to be—that is the risk assessment!

Pediatric NPs gain a new tool to strengthen mental healthcare for young patients

Surgeon general: Loneliness just as harmful as smoking

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