Inpatient Psych

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.

Matt Morris

Jan 20, 2021
6 min

Why Safety Checks are so Hard.

A 100-bed psych hospital conducts 9,600+ Q15 checks per day! What makes Q15 compliance so hard?

Q15 Safety Checks // Goals + Performance Indicators

Matt Morris

Jan 20, 2021
2 min

Q15 Safety Checks // Goals + Performance Indicators

Continuing on our Q15 (safety check) deep dive series. In this post we will cover the goals of Q15 safety checks and the attributes we...

Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas use VisibleHand to improve Q15 safety checks and patient safety

Matt Morris

Jan 20, 2021
2 min

Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas use VisibleHand to improve Q15 safety checks and patient safety

The Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) shares a case study written by Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas (BHSET)...

Matt Morris

Jan 20, 2021
2 min

What is a Q15 Minute Safety Check?

Basic Q15 Minute Safety Check Processes The primary goal of inpatient behavioral treatment is to keep patients safe from themselves and...

Three NAATP members innovate to reduce safety events with VisibleHand

Zach Johnson

Feb 25, 2021
2 min

Three NAATP members innovate to reduce safety events with VisibleHand

All three organizations improved safety, even while treating more acute clients. Elopement and wandering were reduced by over 50%.

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