Tips for NCCHC Accreditation for Your Facility

ESU in the News

• Tips for NCCHC Accreditation for Your Facility

  NCCHC accreditation requires continuous quality improvement in mental health care delivered at your facility.    A continuous quality improvement (CQI) program includes regular meetings of a quality improvement committee to identify aspects of mental health care to be monitored or addressed. Once an area of concern is identified, the committee develops and implements a clinical […]

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• EcoSecurity Utensil at 45th AJA Conference & Jail Expo

  EcoSecurity Utensil is excited to participate in the 2026 edition of the American Jail Association (AJA) conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin! Visit us at booth 438 where you can learn more about our new safety products currently in the works, and give us your feedback for a chance to win a new pair of Bose headphones.  […]

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• Can a safe disposable eating utensil help correctional facilities control the spread of COVID-19?

  Shown to be the safest eating utensil for correctional and psychiatric facilities, EcoSecurity®Utensil (ESU) can also help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The sturdy, U.S.-made paperboard eating utensil is safer for lockdown or quarantine because it is disposable, reducing the spread of viral matter. Plus, heightened agitation from restrictions can increase the need for a […]

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• ESU for Behavioral Health – The safest, disposable utensil for patients at risk of harming self or others ALSO helps reduce the spread of COVID-19

  EcoSecurity Utensil (ESU) is designed to help reduce incidents of suicide and harm to self or for at risk patients. Used by over a thousand of hospitals, psychiatric facilities, rehabilitation centers and other facilities around the world, ESU is also a helpful in reducing the spread of viral matter because they are the only truly […]

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• Fifth San Quentin Death Row Inmate Dies During Prison COVID-19 Outbreak

  SAN QUENTIN (via CBS SF Local) — While California has not executed a death row inmate since 2006, an out-of-control COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin State Prison may have contributed to the death of a fifth condemned inmate on Saturday. To date, more than 1,300 prisoners and 120 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 […]

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• Revealed: Rate Of Self-Harm In Prisons Doubles In Five Years

  By By Arj Singh, HUFF POST , Politics, June 22, 2020   Coronavirus has changed everything. Make sense of it all with the Waugh Zone, our evening politics briefing.  The rate of self-harm in prisons has nearly doubled over the last five years, prompting warnings of a mental health crisis, official figures show. There were 63,328 self-harm incidents in […]

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