Urgent Care Centers

Zero Suicide Initiative

Nicklaus Children’s has joined Zero Suicide, a quality improvement initiative that elevates system-wide suicide prevention and care, with the goal of saving lives.

Through a grant provided by the Children’s Hospital Association, Nicklaus Children’s is implementing Zero Suicide’s proven prevention and care practices adapted within a continuous quality improvement model.

Goals include:

• Reducing suicide deaths
• Decreasing hospitalizations
• Enhancing quality and continuity of care
• Improving post-discharge follow-up visit attendance
• Improving screening rates
• Implementing system-wide care pathways
• Reducing inpatient psychiatric hospital readmissions

What Patients and Families Should Know

As part of this initiative, patients ages 8 and above in our Emergency Department, Urgent Care Centers and inpatient units, are being screened for suicidal ideation. Parents and clinicians will be made aware when children report such thought patterns. Additional follow through and recommendations will be made for as appropriate to children’s care needs.

 If you have concerns that your child may be contemplating suicide, please call the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988.