System Implementation of AMSR
AMSR for Inpatient SettingsI would like to just talk a little bit about how the system approach, for implementation is so important and thinking about regardless of where you are as a leader as you come into this, when you think about implementing AMSR, think about it from that system a a piece. Don't-- not just an individual who's gonna go do this training, but really how does it-- how does that ripple through your agency? How do you make sure that all of your clinicians are trained in a way that their clients are safe? So for other systems, large systems that are thinking about this implementation process, I would encourage them to start by looking at a needs assessment.
What are the needs in your agency? What, what is the, the level of risk that your clients are coming to you with? And really understanding that before you move forward. I think that's one of the things we did really well in Kentucky. We utilized our data to really understand how we operated as a system and what the impacts were having and how we saw that come out in our suicide death data, in our, ED visits, in other encounters that we had with folks who are at risk with suicide. Then the-- of course, the next step is just planning that implementation process.
We're really thinking through what is it gonna look like. How am I going to really implement this program in a wide-scale process that gets the most people exposed to it and which will in turn allow the most of your clients to be cared for in a way that really addresses that suicide risk as well. And finally check up, do that evaluation work, make sure you're collecting that data along the way, and really get to the point where you can say this didn't work, and we need to do things differently.