October 8, 2024

Identifying and Caring for Patients at Risk for Suicide during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This session was hosted on Wednesday, April 29, 2020.

COVID-19 is exacerbating risk factors for suicide, which is being reflected in significant increases in calls to local and national suicide hotlines. Many patients who die by suicide visited their primary care provider within the month of their death, and most were not connected to mental health treatment. As such, primary care providers and their teams are in a unique and critical position to identify and care for patients at risk for suicide.

This training provides concrete steps for primary care providers to identify and care for patients at risk for suicide. Providers will learn how, during the course of any primary care visit (including telephonic visits), to provide suicide safer care and gain a greater understanding of suicide and risk. Join this informative webinar, and a community of over 1500 primary care providers and their teams who have been trained to date, to gain practice tips and knowledge on how to provide evidence-based primary care treatment to patients at risk for suicide.

Presenter: Virna Little, PSyD, LCSW-r, SAP, CCM, Chief Operating Officer, Concert Health

Many of the tools described in the webinar are available in the Suicide Safer Care Toolkit