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In security we trust, insecurity we fear: Are you up for a challenge?

January 16, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Last week we started noodling on where things might go from a regulatory/accreditation perspective as the dust “settles” relative to the management of...

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Manage the environment, manage infection control risks

January 10, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In looking back at 2018 (heck, even in looking back to the beginning of 2019—it already seems like forever ago and we’re only a week in!), I try to us...

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Philo-safety: Improving our practice in 2019

January 03, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Leadership & Finance, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In case it has not become abundantly clear over the last decade or so of penning this blog, there is something about this time of year that sets me to...

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It’s not like they’re going to stop looking over shoulders…

December 13, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As we close in on the second anniversary of when everything went (more) sideways (than usual), all things COVID seem to be heating up for the holidays...

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Mac's Safety Space Extra: You gotta get in to get out

December 15, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant For those of you who were not tasked with traveling over Thanksgiving, but may be coming face to face with it over the next week or so (particularly i...

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Far below, where shadows fester as they grow…

December 20, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Isn’t that a jolly holiday message? So, just when you thought it couldn’t get any more stressful, our munificent friends in Chicago are bestowing y...

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And ma in her kerchief and I in my cap, had just settled down…

December 29, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant For a long winter’s discussion of the The Joint Commission's new Emergency Management chapter (https://www.jointcommission.org/-/media/tjc/documents/s...

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How many bad report cards before you have to give up your phone…up, up & away!

January 04, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In what has become one of the constants of the final quarter of the calendar year, our friends at CMS once again take aim at the disparities between t...

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Can you show me your EID? Do you know why I pulled you over?

January 10, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Surging Deltas! Spiking Omicrons! Holy Infection Control, Batman! Eventually, there may be time to start planning for whatever disease process(es) ...

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Everything old is new again – lucky to have the work…

January 17, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant While it seems that most of the world is trying to wish away the pandemic, healthcare continues to “fight the good fight” in this longest of sieges. ...

In security we trust, insecurity we fear: Are you up for a challenge?

Manage the environment, manage infection control risks

Philo-safety: Improving our practice in 2019

It’s not like they’re going to stop looking over shoulders…

Mac's Safety Space Extra: You gotta get in to get out

Far below, where shadows fester as they grow…

And ma in her kerchief and I in my cap, had just settled down…

How many bad report cards before you have to give up your phone…up, up & away!

Can you show me your EID? Do you know why I pulled you over?

Everything old is new again – lucky to have the work…

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