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All that’s left is a tiny glimmer…

July 11, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Now that we’ve turned full on into July (I’m parched just thinking about it), The Joint Commission survey process is going to (at least for a time) include a focus on the new (meet the new boss, same ...

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Everyone’s a risk wrangler

July 18, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Behavioral & Mental Health

It seems that every week when I look for topics upon which to pontificate, I periodically try to find things that don’t (necessarily) focus on the whole risk assessment thing and I have come to the in...

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At the time of writing we were on the brink…

July 25, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Anyone who thought that COVID19 would be appearing in the rearview mirror as we sped down the highway of life came face-to-face with a double dose of double-downing as the Secretary of Health and Huma...

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When do you stop – time and the art of the risk assessment…

August 01, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

If one calibrates an instrument, then one is behooved to calibrate the instrument used to calibrate the initial instrument. Then one is behooved to calibrate the instrument used to calibrate the instr...

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What does one do in the meantime…

December 17, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

...Interim Life Safety Measures and the art of the impairment. ...

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Perhaps PHEs are like kids – impossible to pick a favorite!

August 15, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

So, now that monkeypox has made it to the big leagues with its declaration as a public health emergency (PHE), I can’t help but think that, for a lot of folks, it’s probably a little ways down on the ...

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Let there be more light

December 17, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

It does appear that things are starting to shift on the regulatory front as it relates to COVID-19. ...

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Point me at the sky and let it fly...

August 29, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

A couple of short-ish items for the week as we start to clear the decks for the headlong rush into the autumnal portion of 2022 (I know there’s still a month of summer left, but the season does seem t...

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What’s that smell?

November 21, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Fire & Life Safety

The other day, I fielded a question regarding the use of plug-in air fresheners and what regulatory-based prohibitions/allowances might be entertained in determining how best to manage these devices a...

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Looking forward is looking back…

December 05, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

When standards have been realigned in the past, certain “requirements” were dropped off, but some of those things never really went away, mostly because, while not requirements, those things were esse...

All that’s left is a tiny glimmer…

Everyone’s a risk wrangler

At the time of writing we were on the brink…

When do you stop – time and the art of the risk assessment…

What does one do in the meantime…

Perhaps PHEs are like kids – impossible to pick a favorite!

Let there be more light

Point me at the sky and let it fly...

What’s that smell?

Looking forward is looking back…

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