Patient Safety
The name for a patient safety event that reaches the patient (with or without harm)?
What is an Incident?
An activity a regulatory body conducts onsite, typically unannounced
What is a survey?
The invaluable, indispensible, front of the front line staff for behavioral health patients.
Who are Mental Health Technicians (MHTs)?
A mental health condition that mainly affects one's emotional state.
What is a mood disorder?
An event which resulted in an undesirable clinical outcome not caused by underlying disease - that prolonged the patient stay, caused permanent patient harm, required life-saving intervention, or contributed to death.
What is an Adverse Event?
Called EOPs for short, these are TJC actionable standards for all accredited hospitals.
What are Elements of Performance?
Called PHP for short.
What is Partial Hospitalization Program?
A disorder that interferes with a person’s ability to think clearly, manage emotions, make decisions and relate to others. It also causes people to lose touch with reality, often in the form of hallucinations and delusions.
What is Schizophrenia?
Eyes-on routine, reoccuring checks on patients
What are 15-minute patient observations?
The organization that is deemed by CMS to accredit The Ridge.
What is The Joint Commission?
A multidisciplinary meeting to support the patient and discuss the course of treatment.
What is a Treatment Team Meeting?
Uncontrolled use of substances, sometimes arising from a treatable mental disorder.
What is Substance Use Disorder?
Safety staff meeting that often occurs during shift change.
What is a Huddle or safety Huddle?
OIG for short - a federal regulatory and investigative agency with state offices.
What is the Office of Inspector General?
A standing method of restraint.
What is Primary Restraint Technique?
A disorder characterized by disruptions in a person’s thoughts and perceptions that make it difficult for them to recognize what is real and what isn’t.
What is Psychosis?
Uncontrolled use of substances, sometimes arising from a treatable mental disorder
What is a Substance Use Disorder?
The first two levels of Findings a surveyor may cite during a hospital survey (due to actual practice not following policy or regulatory standards).
What are Standard Level and Condition Level findings?
A formal investigation conducted after a serious patient safety event.
A treatment that involves sending an electric current through the brain to relieve severe symptoms of some mental health problems.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy?