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Actionable safety advice for behavioral healthcare providers - delivered monthly to your inbox.

Deep Empathy Leads to Safer & More Dignified Psychiatric Treatment - The Story of JT Shoe Stays

Zach Johnson

Jun 23
3 min

Deep Empathy Leads to Safer & More Dignified Psychiatric Treatment - The Story of JT Shoe Stays

How JT Shoe Stays created a new shoelace for psychiatric hospital patients. They are safer and preserve preserve dignity.

Five Practical Tips to Elevate Patient Safety in Your Psychiatric Hospital

Zach Johnson

Jun 7
2 min

Five Practical Tips to Elevate Patient Safety in Your Psychiatric Hospital

Top 5 tips to improve patient safety at your psychiatric hospital

Zach Johnson

May 25
2 min

What Do Health Techs Really Do? 📽

This "day in the life" video of a health tech shows what it looks like to work in a modern mental health hospital.

The Unsung Heroes: Being a Mental Health Tech in a Psych Hospital

Zach Johnson

May 19
2 min

The Unsung Heroes: Being a Mental Health Tech in a Psych Hospital

Being a mental health tech in a psych hospital is a rewarding and demanding position.

Zach Johnson

Jun 16, 2021
2 min

Psychiatric hospital Q15 trends

We analyzed VisibleHand’s database to help you optimize Q15 forms & team training - the equivalent of tallying 1.5 million Q15's.

Going digital for Q15s and safety checks?

Zach Johnson

May 20, 2021
5 min

Going digital for Q15s and safety checks?

Even for a seemingly straightforward process like safety checks, there are a number of factors to assess before transitioning from paper.

What do psych hospitals record on their Q15 sheets?

Matt Morris

Jan 20, 2021
5 min

What do psych hospitals record on their Q15 sheets?

What do psych hospitals record on their Q15 sheets? We analyzed the more than 300 survey responses collected APNA.

ROI - Digital Rounding for Q15s & safety checks

Matt Morris

Jan 20, 2021
4 min

ROI - Digital Rounding for Q15s & safety checks

What is the true cost of an adverse safety event at a psychiatric hospital or addiction treatment center?

Matt Morris

Jan 20, 2021
2 min

No more ‘average’ health techs!

Most units have high and low performing staff members. The trick is knowing who is who. See our analysis of 100k+ observations.

How to Create a Safety Staff Performance Score

Matt Morris

Jan 20, 2021
3 min

How to Create a Safety Staff Performance Score

We created the scoring system after analyzing hundreds of thousands of patient safety observations. Here, you can learn to build your own.

Northbound Treatment saves hundreds of hours, improves patient safety.

Zach Johnson

May 31
6 min

Northbound Treatment saves hundreds of hours, improves patient safety.

Northbound Treatment uses VisibleHand to improve patient safety and reduce workload by hundreds of hours.

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