Ligature Risks: Ensuring Compliance with the CMS Hospital CoPs and TJC Requirements

This webinar will discuss the CMS requirements(tag numbers 144 in patient rights and tag 701 in facility services) for hospitals to prevent ligature risk and self-harm from patients that are suicidal.

Why Should You Attend:

CMS amends tag numbers 144 in patient rights and tag 701 in facility services. This webinar will discusses what units need to be ligature resistant. It covers what patient assessments must be done and what should be in the environmental assessments. It discusses education and policy and procedure requirements.

Joint Commission has 13 requirements to ensure compliance with their standards. These will be discussed in detail and include psych hospital, behavior health units, general acute care inpatient units, outpatient units and emergency departments. The zero suicide campaign will be discussed. The TJC sentinel event alerts on suicide, NPSH 15, and Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) on ligature risk will be covered.