The Zero Suicide Approach
AMSR for Inpatient SettingsAssessing and Managing Suicide Risk can be seen as part of a larger model, a larger model of care called the Zero Suicide Model. The Zero Suicide Model has been put together to establish a solid framework that allows organizations health and behavioral health care systems to focus on how do I provide suicide-safer care. There are seven elements to this zero suicide model that when bundled together allow us to reach what we call an aspirational goal. An aspirational goal of zero suicides for persons in our care.
Now let's think about that for a moment. Zero suicides for persons in our care. We start with a basic belief that suicide is preventable. Suicide is preventable for persons in our care if we have the right structure, the right tools, and the right culture. The only way to get to zero suicides for persons in our care is through full system transformation. Those changes absolutely cannot be done on the backs of one or a group of clinicians.
So we are gonna look at culture change, and we're gonna look at clinical practice change. But in a structured way, with tools that are available to you as a health care organization, but also available to your clinicians.