Every year, ACEP partners with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to bestow the Innovation in Suicide Prevention Award. This honor recognizes promising and innovative acute care activities in the area of suicide prevention, that improve patient outcomes and lives of patients and/or clinicians. Nominations are being accepted through June 30.
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ACEP Now: Vol 41 – No 06 – June 2022Last year’s winner was Emergency Psychiatric Intervention (EPI), a unique conceptual framework to improve the emergency department care of patients with mental health emergencies. Utilizing the same principles that improved ED care for patients with critical medical illnesses—early risk stratification, eliminating over-processing, immediate treatment, and proactive staff education—EPI decreases the risk of suicide in patients with mental health crises who seek care in the ED. Learn more about past winners and nominate a deserving suicide prevention initiative at www.acep.org/innovation-in-acute-care-suicide-prevention.
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