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Immediate Jeopardy: How much do you want to wager?

March 27, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant With best wishes to Alex Trebek! Over the last couple of weeks, the folks at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (we know them by the ...

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Keeping an eye on things: Managing behavioral health patients

March 20, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Behavioral & Mental Health

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant What, again?!? Recently, our friends in Chicago added a new FAQ to the canon, this time reflecting on the use of video monitoring/electronic sitter...

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It’s been a long time: Revisiting an EOC perennial

March 13, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Setting the wayback machine for the dark ages of safety (well, 2011 or so), we come to the last time we covered the monitoring of temperature and/or h...

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Eat, drink, and be safe: Some guidance on the care and feeding of staff

March 06, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant One of the more universal conditions I find is the whole issue of where staff can grab something to eat or drink in the midst of busy periods, particu...

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Making a checklist, making it right: Reducing compliance errors

March 01, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As you may have noticed, I am something of a fan of public radio (most of my listening in vehicles involves NPR and its analogues) and every once in a...

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Waste not, want not: The rest of the CMS Emergency Preparedness picture

February 20, 2019

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Moving on to the rest of the guidance document (it still lives here), I did want to note one last item relative to emergency power: There is an expect...

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Walking in the shadow of the big man: CMS isn’t done with emergency preparedness

February 14, 2019

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Imagine that! The turn of February brought with it the latest epistle from our friends at CMS as they continue to noodle on the preparedness of the...

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Don’t bleed before you are wounded, and if you can avoid being wounded…

February 07, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant …so much the better! Part of me is wondering what took them so long to get to this point in the conversation. In their latest Quick Safety utter...

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Power Up: When your generator doesn’t carry a 30% load

January 31, 2019

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Cybersecurity & Technology

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Particularly for smaller facilities (or, I suppose, big places with multiple generators), consistently meeting the requirement for a 30% load during m...

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E to the E to the E to the E: Next step(s) towards a reporting culture

January 24, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Thinking that this may have gotten lost in the year-end shuffle, I wanted to take a moment to cover a little ground relative to Sentinel Event Alert (...

Immediate Jeopardy: How much do you want to wager?

Keeping an eye on things: Managing behavioral health patients

It’s been a long time: Revisiting an EOC perennial

Eat, drink, and be safe: Some guidance on the care and feeding of staff

Making a checklist, making it right: Reducing compliance errors

Waste not, want not: The rest of the CMS Emergency Preparedness picture

Walking in the shadow of the big man: CMS isn’t done with emergency preparedness

Don’t bleed before you are wounded, and if you can avoid being wounded…

Power Up: When your generator doesn’t carry a 30% load

E to the E to the E to the E: Next step(s) towards a reporting culture

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