NAPHS and its members are committed to the delivery of responsive, accountable, and clinically effective prevention, treatment, and care for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults with mental and substance use disorders. Learn more about the following quality initiatives and resources:
- Performance measurement. NAPHS is playing a leadership role in efforts now underway to identify potential core measures for inpatient psychiatric services. Read about the association’s work in a Special Report (.pdf). Members: Also see the members-only Web site.
- Safety and the built environment for behavioral health facilities. NAPHS has posted a special White Paper (newly updated in 2009) that provides a "Design Guide for the Built Environment of Behavioral Health Facilities: Edition 3.0" by David M. Sine, ARM, CSP, CPHRM, and James M. Hunt, AIA, NCARB. This free publication provides links to hard-to-find resources and strategies designed to enhance patient safety. Also, read more about an anti-suicide door featured in a recent Joint Commission publication. NAPHS also offers training on "Building for Tomorrow: Creating a Patient-Centered Built Environment in Behavioral Healthcare Facilities."
- Smoking cessation and health. NAPHS is working with the National Mental Health Partnership for Wellness and Smoking Cessation to make health and wellness a priority for people with mental illnesses and for the providers who serve them. NAPHS is offering a training with faculty from the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center of the University of California San Francisco to help psychiatric facilities address clinical and policy issues related to smoking cessation.
- Information technology. NAPHS has formed an Information Technology (IT) Committee to help the association develop public policy strategies on IT issues. Read the NAPHS Information Technology Principles (updated in April 2006).
- Training for clinical and administrative staffs (on issues ranging from suicide prevention to safety standards)
- The Institute of Medicine report on Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions: Quality Chasm Series. Also view a Powerpoint presentation by IOM’s Ann Page, RN, MPH, and IOM committee member Gary Gottlieb, M.D., on a recent NAPHS/AHA “Hot Topics” call.
- MEMBERS ONLY (password required for members-only section): "NAPHS Networking" forums online allow you to connect with other members on quality and other issues. After accessing the members-only section, please "login" to use all functions of "NAPHS Networking."
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