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Ultimately, I would really rather not…

June 06, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

Once again, the reality of a potential active shooter in the healthcare environment takes center stage and we are once again faced with the question of how to keep folks safe during such a horrific ev...

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Doing the math in your head – risk assessments in your own house

June 13, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Behavioral & Mental Health

Lately it seems that I’ve been running into risk assessments that “feel” more like incomplete thoughts in that all the risks within the assessed environment are not represented. ...

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The way you do the things you do…

June 20, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Infection Control

…and perhaps more importantly, the “why” you do the things you do. ...

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We live in a 3-D world…

December 18, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

One of the common themes that’s emerged from our transition into what is presumably going to be a post-COVID world (somehow I still think that we not yet reached the mid-point of the COVID-athon, but ...

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You go back, Jack, and do it again……

July 04, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Health Equity, Laboratory Safety, Policies and Procedures

In this week’s installment, our friends in Chicago have sharpened their pencils (and placed them in a safe place once their edits were completed) in their guidance to behavioral health organizations, ...

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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 18, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

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

Ultimately, I would really rather not…

Doing the math in your head – risk assessments in your own house

The way you do the things you do…

We live in a 3-D world…

You go back, Jack, and do it again……

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…

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