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Mac's Safety Space

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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...

Mac's Safety Space

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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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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 (...

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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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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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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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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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I’d like to know, can you tell me, please don’t tell me: Behavioral health and egress

April 22, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In response to last week’s modified Top 10 list (there’s been a request for another list regarding point-of-care/point-of-service staff knowledge of E...

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One of your sprinkler heads is loaded: Can you find it before they do?

April 08, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant And now, to the recap of the 10 most frequently cited standards during all of 2018 (in hospitals; other programs are a little more varied), as chosen ...

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We are hope, despite the times: Steve Mac’s top 10 most troublesome EC challenges

April 16, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant First a quick (moderately revelatory) story: While traveling last week, I had the opportunity to see Creed II on the plane (I found it very entertaini...

Manage the environment, manage infection control risks

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’d like to know, can you tell me, please don’t tell me: Behavioral health and egress

One of your sprinkler heads is loaded: Can you find it before they do?

We are hope, despite the times: Steve Mac’s top 10 most troublesome EC challenges

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