Products
Innovative Ligature Resistant Products
We strive to increase the awareness of facilities and designers regarding the current design trends and latest products that have been developed which are safer to use in these environments.
Below we have highlighted select, new, innovative products that have been released since the publication of the current edition of the Design Guide. For a more comprehensive listing of ligature resistant behavioral health products please visit the current edition of the Behavioral Health Design Guide.
Openings
En-Suite Patient Bathroom Door w/Shower Door Options
Safehinge – Primera’s Wanford En-Suite Bathroom Door
Safehinge – Primera’s Wanford En-Suite Bathroom Door is a pair of vinyl wrapped foam doors mounted on hinges that are fixed to the wall or door frame and to which the doors attach with magnets that will release under load. There is an option that requires staff intervention to reinstall the doors if desired to alert staff to patients tampering with doors.
Kingsway’s In-Suite Patient Bathroom Assembly #SHDUS02
Kingsway’s In-Suite Patient Bathroom Assembly #SHDUS02 utilizes a plastic door and is available to fit either a double rabbeted frame or cased opening.
If a full-size, tight-fitting lockable door is needed, the hinges and rubber fin can be used with a wood door mounted on their double-swing hinge fitted with a ligature-resistant restrictor cap that also limits the swing to outward only and a rubber fin mounted on the strike side of the door frame that also has a ligature resistant cap. This fin reduces the risk of the pinch point at the strike jamb. An over-door alarm, classroom function deadbolt that engages the head of the frame (with a ligature-resistant turn piece that will retract the bolt, but not extend it), two flush pulls mounted back to back (larger pulls available for ADA accessible rooms), and a roller ball or magnetic latch will be needed to complete the installation.
A version of the plastic En-Suite door is available with a bottom seal for use on shower stalls.
Kingsway Group USA
2807 Samoset Road
Royal Oak, MI 48073
P: 800-783-7980
Sliding En-Suite Bathroom Door
Ligature Resistant Sliding Door System
This system Accurate Lock and Hardware is a ligature-resistant set of hardware that provides a lockable in-suite patient bathroom door that can eliminate issues with swinging door conflicts or floor space issues as long as there is wall surface for it to slide over in the open position. Ligature resistant pulls and locking hardware are available for this configuration. A frame system for use with this hardware is also available which greatly simplifies its installation in both new and existing facilities.
Accurate Lock and Hardware
1 Annie Place, Stamford, CT 06902
P: 203-348-8865
Specialties
Security Glass Mirror in Ligature Resistant Wood Frame
RAO Contract Sales Hybrid Safety Mirror in Guardian Frame
RAO’s glass/poly/glass security glazing mirror is now available in their ligature-resistant wood frame to provide a more residential appearance for patient bathrooms. All screw holes can be plugged with wood dowels like those shown in the top of the frame in the accompanying image.
Anti-Ligature Grab Bar
KG270-278 Anti-Ligature Grab Bar Kingsway Group USA
Kingsway’s Grab Bars are ligature-resistant, self-draining and may be installed on a slight slope to facilitate drainage. They provide a high degree of safety and are also easy to clean and sanitize. They are aluminum and available in several colors of powder coated finish.
Semi-Recessed Toilet Paper Holder
Whitehall’s Best Care Toilet Paper Holder
Whitehall’s Best Care toilet paper holder is semi-recessed so it works in a typical 3.5 inch stud wall and is ligature resistant. The spring-loaded buttons hold the paper without the need for a spindle.
Plumbing/HVAC
Solid Surface Toilet Fixture – ligature resistant, extended, disabled, back to wall, front mount
Intersan Solid Surface Toilet Fixture
This toilet fixture is made from very durable solid surface material, has integral seat, floor mounted, fits tight to wall, allows all pipes to be concealed and can be installed from the room side which simplifies installation in existing buildings.
Intersan Manufacturing Company
1748 West Fillmore Street
Phoenix, AZ 85007
P: 602-254-3101
Dual Quick Connect – Wall Mounted Shower Head with Integral Diverter
Intersan Ligature Resistant Shower Head
Intersan’s ligature resistant shower head with integral quick-disconnect fitting and internal diverter valve reduces the clutter of individual items and helps reduce the institutional look of ADA accessible showers.
Intersan Manufacturing Company
1748 West Fillmore Street
Phoenix, AZ 85007
P: 602-254-3101
Ligature-Resistant, ADA Compliant Corterra Cast Solid Surface Corner Basin
Whitehall Manufacturing’s Corner Wall-Hung Solid Surface Lavatories
Make ligature attachment difficult and some come with the ADA required 18” space from the wall to the center line of the drain and matching pipe enclosure.
Ligature-Resistant Linear Drain with Flashing Flange
BestCare® Ligature-Resistant Linear Drain with Flashing Flange WHLD Series
Whitehall’s ligature resistant floor drains that offer fewer opportunities for ligature attachment or patients abrading their skin are preferred over more traditional drain grates.
Electrical
Electronic Monitoring and Control – Metal Detectors
Metrasens Proscreen 200
Ferrous metal detectors that are less institutional are now available for use in behavioral health facilities. This particular unit requires the patient or visitor to turn around in front of the device, but not walk through it.
Gig Light Fixture
Visa Lighting Gig Light Fixture with BH1 mounting bracket & polycarbonate lens
Gig light fixture by Visa Lighting is a small individual reading light can be provided to give reading light or can be conveniently located to allow patients to turn on a small light for assistance with seeing when getting up in the middle of the night.
Visa Lighting
1717 W. Civic Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53209
P: 800-788-8472
Tamper-Resistant Patient Telephones
JP3500 Armored Courtesy Phone
Stainless steel security type telephones for patient use manufactured by G-Tel are suggested to be their JP3500 Armored Courtesy Phones. The G-Tel phones listed in the Behavioral Health Design Guide in Editions prior to 7.4 (February 2018) are not recommended for use in these facilities.
Furnishings
Rocking Chair
Spec Furniture's Hardi Rocking Chair
Spec Furniture’s Hardi rocking chair provides patients the opportunity to enjoy the therapeutic benefits of rocking motion is a relatively safe, comfortable manner that is shape to resist being easily picked-up and thrown.
Bed with Available Removable Restraint Loop
Norix Attenda Bed with available removable restraint loop
Seclusion/Restraint Rooms have an issue in that if the room is used for seclusion and the patient is not in restraints, the loops used to attach the restraint straps to the bed are ligature attachment risks for the patient. Norix now has developed a solution to this situation with a bracket that bolts to the bed/floor that has a removable restraint loop. Each lop needs to be installed or removed individually, but this should only take a few seconds per loop.
Behavioral Health Furniture
Pineapple Contract Furniture
Pineapple furniture company has an interesting line of behavioral health furniture that is specifically designed for these facilities. Items range from sand-ballasted seating for patient rooms and dining rooms (Ryno) to lounge furniture (Domus and Skye Plus) and even bean bag type seating (Boden Series) without zippers for comfort rooms and other areas for adolescent patients.
Pineapple Contracts
1238 Anderson Court
Clawson, MI 48017
P: 800-496-9324
Finishes
Flexible Wall Protection
Ricochet Flexible Wall Protection
Inpro’s Ricochet flexible wall protection combines the impact protection qualities of rigid panels with the flexibility of conventional wall covering materials.
Integral Cove Base
Sika Corporation Integral Base – No Top Trim Strip Required
Sika Corporation now has a detail for the top edge of an integral cove base to use with their liquid applied flooring material that does not require a trim strip. The trim strips typically used in this application are very problematic in behavioral health facilities.
Tamper Resistant Accessible Ceiling System
Armstrong Ceiling’s Metal Works Vector System
One solution to achieving an accessible ceiling system that is also tamper resistant and uses the existing ceiling grid system may be Armstrong Ceiling’s Metal Works Vector system. It requires removal of the existing ceiling tile and installation of specialty 2’x2’ metal ceiling panels with tamper resistant screws in the recessed joints between the tiles to resist removal. This system utilizes tamper resistant screws in the recesses between panels which can be removed with use of a special tool to allow access at any point and is available with sound absorbing options.
Armstrong Ceilings – Metalworks
P: 877-276-7876