PAPHR implements suicide risk screening tool
After years of talking, researching and planning, a screening tool used to identify suicide risk is being expanded across the Prince Albert Parkland Health Region (PAPHR).
The initiative will improve the suicide risk assessment tool that was previously in place. In 2008, the Saskatchewan ministry of health issued a provincial “alert ensuring the safety of clients at risk for suicide.”
Brett Enns, regional director for community services, said around this time a number of suicides had taken place in close proximity to one another.
“So this provincial alert was issued to all the health regions to look at policy development, training and that sort of thing,” he said. In that same year, a national program that accredits policy came out with an operating practice to assess and monitor clients at risk for suicide.