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Behavioral Health Intake
Support screening before patients enter a behavioral health unit or treatment area.
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Trauma-Informed Behavioral Health Security
Safety Shouldn't Feel Like a Threat
Behavioral health security requires a more thoughtful approach. Metrasens Ultra helps healthcare teams detect potential threat items in a non-invasive way that supports staff safety, patient dignity, de-escalation, and clinical workflow.
The challenge
Behavioral health screening is different. The process matters.
In behavioral health settings, patients may arrive in crisis, staff may be managing unpredictable situations, and the screening process itself can influence whether an interaction feels calm or escalated.
Many behavioral health units still rely on handheld wands or manual screening to identify potential threat items. While familiar, these approaches can be inconsistent, staff-dependent, and difficult to apply in a calm, repeatable way during sensitive interactions.
A trauma-informed security approach considers not only whether screening is effective, but how it is experienced.
The challenge
Strengthen safety without making patients feel confronted, criminalized, or singled out.
A calmer approach
A calmer, more consistent way to screen
Metrasens Ultra supports non-invasive threat item detection across behavioral health and high-risk healthcare environments — building screening workflows that are more consistent, flexible, and aligned with the realities of care.
Non-Invasive Detection
Screen for potential threat items without relying solely on handheld wanding or manual searches.
Supports De-Escalation
Create a calmer screening experience that helps reduce unnecessary friction during sensitive interactions.
Flexible for Healthcare Workflows
Deploy screening where it is needed most — from behavioral health intake to ED handoff and secondary screening locations.
Five pillars
What does trauma-informed security look like?
Trauma-informed security is not just a policy. It is the way safety is designed, communicated, and carried out across the care environment.
Trauma-Informed Security
Hover or tap a pillar to explore — five principles, one centered approach to care.
Where it fits
Where Metrasens Ultra can support behavioral health safety
The guide
Designing Trauma-Informed Security in Behavioral Health Settings
Learn how to evaluate your current behavioral health screening process and identify opportunities to improve safety, consistency, dignity, and workflow.
- Why behavioral health security requires a different approach
- How handheld wanding and manual screening can create friction
- What trauma-informed screening should support
- Where screening can fit within the patient journey
- How non-invasive detection can support staff confidence and patient dignity
- Questions to ask when evaluating your current process
Interactive assessment
Is your behavioral health unit trauma-informed?
Take a short assessment to see whether your current screening process supports safety, dignity, consistency, de-escalation, and clinical workflow.
10 questions · About 3 minutes
Product support
How Metrasens Ultra supports trauma-informed screening
Metrasens Ultra helps healthcare teams detect potential threat items without relying solely on traditional wanding or manual search processes. Its flexible deployment model allows hospitals to place screening where it supports the workflow, not where it disrupts it.
Portable & Flexible
Move screening to behavioral health intake, ED handoff points, or secondary locations as needs change.
Non-Contact Screening
Help reduce friction during sensitive patient interactions.
Designed for Healthcare
Support safer workflows without creating a security experience that feels out of place in a care setting.
Supports Staff Confidence
Give teams a more consistent process for identifying potential risks.
Get started
Build a safer behavioral health screening process
Safety should protect the care environment, not make it feel more threatening. See how Metrasens Ultra can support a more trauma-informed approach to behavioral health security.