Behavioral & Mental Health | .accreditationqualitycenter

Mac's Safety Space

- Volume

Issue

Risk assessments: Don’t leave home without one!

May 04, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant An interesting phenomenon I’ve been encountering of late relates to the whole notion of having to do environmental risk assessments in locations that ...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

- Volume

Issue

CMS memos offers new IC, visitation guidance for BH settings

December 14, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health, Infection Control

The prolonged social isolation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has created unique challenges for psychiatric hospitals and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabiliti...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

- Volume

Issue

The fight against anxiety, depression, and mental illness during COVID-19

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Infection Control

Mental health has deteriorated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients no longer have access to their normal support systems and outlets, while changes and disruptions to daily life have become the nor...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

- Volume

Issue

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, February 2021

December 14, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Patient Safety, Infection Control

Subscribers, download this month's full PSMJ newsletter Not a subscriber yet? Sign up for a Basic of Platinum membership to gain access to all Patient Safety Monitor Journal and Inside Accreditat...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

How to run an emergency department social medicine team

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Leadership & Finance

Treating patients with behavioral health issues such as substance abuse and social challenges such as homelessness pose several difficulties in emergency departments. For example, ED clinicians are un...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

How to create a safety protocol for emergency department psychiatric patients

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

Patients with psychiatric illness can spend lengthy periods of time in emergency departments waiting for psychiatric evaluation or transfer to an inpatient psychiatric facility. Earlier research found...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

- Volume

Issue

COVID ambassadors help thousands of patients talk with their families during isolation

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Cybersecurity & Technology, Infection Control

Staff who otherwise would have been furloughed were instead trained on COVID-19 safety and virtual communication programs. Their job was to set up and facilitate virtual visits between patients and th...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

How to build a comprehensive social determinants of health initiative

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

SDOH factors such as food security and housing play a pivotal role in the health of individuals and populations. A landmark 2016 study published by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found th...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

- Volume

Issue

COVID-19 and physician burnout: How health systems can help reverse it

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Healthcare Staff, Infection Control

After months of being stuck at home, staying socially distant, wearing face coverings, and constantly washing your hands, do you suffer from “coronavirus burnout”? While COVID-19-related inconvenience...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

3 strategies for combating nurse burnout during and after the pandemic

December 14, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Workplace safety, Healthcare Staff, Infection Control

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses were already facing a high burnout rate—with nearly four out of 10 nurses reporting they felt burned out—possibly due to long hours, increased workloads, weak wo...

Subscribe to Behavioral & Mental Health

Risk assessments: Don’t leave home without one!

CMS memos offers new IC, visitation guidance for BH settings

The fight against anxiety, depression, and mental illness during COVID-19

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, February 2021

How to run an emergency department social medicine team

How to create a safety protocol for emergency department psychiatric patients

COVID ambassadors help thousands of patients talk with their families during isolation

How to build a comprehensive social determinants of health initiative

COVID-19 and physician burnout: How health systems can help reverse it

3 strategies for combating nurse burnout during and after the pandemic

Resource/w tools selected

STET CMS & tools

OSHA Dental Facilities Update - November 2023

OSHA Medical Facilities Update - November 2023

Tab 2, Medical Facilities OSHA Manual- August 2023

Tab 2, Dental Facility OSHA Manual- August 2023

Chapter 2: Chapter Format and Tracer Planning