Behavioral Health Claim Trends

Claims are consistently associated with the elopement of patients and those patients who are committed for psychiatric treatment. To mitigate risks leading to such claims, review the following educational material. This data offers webinars, educational tools and legal and regulatory requirements to care for mental health patients.

• Guidelines/Recommendations

  Guidelines/Recommendations

  Limitation of Liability For Crisis Intervention Trained Staff

  Hospitals are encouraged to train all staff in violence and de-escalation techniques to help defuse potentially aggressive individuals. Louisiana law offers limitation of liability for staff who utilize these techniques in good faith, but they must have documented training by an instructor certified in a formal nonviolent crisis intervention program. This document references the Louisiana statute that applies to this unique situation.

  TAGS: Good, Faith, Louisiana, Interventions, Trained, Staff, Violence, De-escalation

• Webinar

  Webinar

  Webinar: Legal Issues in the Emergency Department Before and After the PEC

  This webinar discusses the legal and regulatory requirements for treating psych patients in the emergency department. The presenter will also provide actual case studies to illustrate both the right and wrong way to handle some of the unusual and unexpected situations that may arise.