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Suicide Related Emergency Department Visits
Background: Rhode Island Department of Health’s (RIDOH) Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Grant has developed a quarterly data publication on suicide related emergency department visits. Rhode Island’s ten acute care hospital emergency departments (EDs) submit data to RIDOH’s ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics) database for syndromic surveillance. These hospitals include Fatima Hospital, Kent Hospital, Landmark Hospital, Miriam Hospital, Newport Hospital, Rhode Island Hospital, Roger Williams Hospital, South County Hospital, Westerly Hospital, and Women and Infants Hospital. Specialty hospitals such as Bradley Hospital and Butler Hospital are not included in the data below.
Suicide Related Emergency Department visits includes nonfatal suicide related visits for Rhode Islanders 10 years of age and older including suicide ideation, self-harm/suicide attempt, or a combination of both.
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Rhode Island Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Grant 2025 Mental Health Parity Training Evaluation Findings
Background
The Rhode Island Department of Health partnered with RIPIN (formerly Rhode Island Parent Information Network) to develop and implement a training for healthcare professionals covering when parity laws can be implemented, who is covered under them, and the process for filing a complaint with the goal of increasing their understanding of parity laws and ability to identify and report parity violations in the future.
Rhode Island Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Grant 2025 Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) Training Evaluation Findings
Background
This document shares the evaluation of trainings that the Rhode Island Department of Health's Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Grant and Care New England sponsored in partnership. Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) is an evidence-based intervention used to increase time and distance between individuals at risk of suicide and the most lethal items in their environment, particularly firearms and medications.
RI Suicide Mortality for Males in Construction and Extraction Occupations
Background
Between 2017-2021, suicide mortality data reveal males, age 25-64, are the age group that is most impacted by suicide. This trend continues in the construction and extraction occupation group.
Suicide-Related Mortality and Morbidity: Insights from Rhode Island’s Violent Death Reporting and Syndromic Surveillance Systems (RIVDRS)
Background
In this article, characteristics of suicide decedents are summarized and compared across the two most recent five-year time periods in RIVDRS. Characteristics of suicide-related emergency department (ED) visits during the two most recent completed years are also compared.
Analysis of Intentional and Unintentional Drug Overdose Deaths Occurring in Rhode Island, 2016–2019
Background
In this article, characteristics of individuals who died from an intentional drug overdose death in Rhode Island’s Violent Death Reporting and Syndromic Surveillance Systems (RIVDRS) will be compared to those who died from an unintentional drug overdose death in State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS) to better understand differences by intent.