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Medical professionals and client-facing staff can make an enormous impact on preventing suicides. They play an important role in educating all patients to proactively make homes safer to prevent suicide, accidents, and overdose/addiction.

 

To address suicide as a public health crisis, leading experts and health care organizations have collaborated to develop All Patients Safe: Suicide Prevention for Medical Professionals.

Suicide by the numbers:

5-14%

of perinatal women experience suicidal thoughts.

45,000+

lives claimed annually to suicide. For middle-aged men and people aged 10-24, suicide is a leading cause of death.

50%

of all people who die by suicide see a primary care provider in the month prior to their death.

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