The disposable Suicide Prevention Face Covers are made with AAMI Level 3 non-woven fabric, are soft and comfortable with easy break earloops, offered in sizes S/M and L/XL and are authorized by the FDA under the EUA for use as a source control in general public or healthcare settings in accordance with CDC recommendations.
The Suicide Prevention Face Cover was developed with the MN Veteran Affairs Hospital after nurses were spending hours pulling out metal nose bridges and retying ear loops for their acute psych patients. Shawn Oglesby, the Facility Chief Supply Chain Officer at the St. Cloud, MN VA Hospital, said about working with CDS:
"I know we have all been struggling on trying to find an acceptable "No Harm" mask for our acute psych patients. St Cloud’s Mental Health department has been working closely with Clothier Design Source on developing such a mask.... After many iterations of different prototypes that CDS put together for us, we were finally able to develop a mask that meets the needs of our mental health patients."
On August 13, 2020, Neil Vigdor for the New York Times reported on an inmate at the Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center in Uncasville, Conn who hanged himself in a cell using a cloth mask. The article goes on to shed light on other correctional facility suicides by PPE masks:
"In Alabama, a county jail in Huntsville has faced criticism for confiscating masks and barring inmates from wearing them, the local news website AL.com reported. A spokesman for the Madison County sheriff told the website that inmates could harm themselves or others with the metal nose pieces on masks, and that the masks could be tied together to make ropes.
"You give them face masks (with) a nose piece — metal pieces in them — they’re going to eat them,” the spokesman, Brent Patterson, told the site. "They’re going to swallow them.""
For more information, to place an order, or for a free sample please call (651) 225-8025, or email laura@mlc-clothier.com.
