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He held his head in his hands: Outpatient/Offsite Vulnerabilities

June 10, 2019

Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Being something of a quiet week on the compliance front (as we embrace the “dog days” of summer—and spring’s got 10 or so days to go), I wanted to use...

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Making stock, taking stock: Emergency inventory madness!

June 18, 2019

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In trolling The Joint Commission’s FAQ page for interesting tidbits to share, I came across the entry regarding the thought process around the establi...

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One size fits all…or one size fits none

June 25, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In a world in which the economies of scale don’t always economize, I keep running into situations and/or conditions that result from trying to make so...

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Don’t Call It A Comeback: The Statement of Conditions breathes again!

June 25, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Not a whole lot going on in the July 2019 issue of Perspectives, but it appears that a little more consideration will need to be paid to the Statement...

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Going nowhere fast…nothing like the sun

December 07, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I received an interesting question this week regarding whether or not there was a need for UV protection in a supply room with windows (for the purpos...

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Would you believe there’s nothing up my sleeve?: Protective measures

August 20, 2019

Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Caution: This is not a product endorsement, but rather an observation of a product that might, at times, sound a little endorse-y. I can be persuaded…...

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Maybe there’s a hole in there somewhere: Keeping your critical equipment running!

August 06, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Cybersecurity & Technology

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant An interesting line of questioning is emerging in some recent survey activity (mostly during state visits, but the accreditation organizations are mov...

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Don’t forget to leave room for amazement: The perils of occupational fatigue

August 14, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Healthcare Staff

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant If you’ll bear with me, friends, this week deals not so much with the harsh realities of our vocation, but with the hope that those harsh realities ca...

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Like water for opportunistic organisms: Protecting patients through utility systems

July 30, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As a wise individual once noted, “water always wins” (at risk of betraying my nerd status, you can find the entire quote here), and it seems like wate...

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In a world of magnets and miracles: Shifting the sands of compliance

September 27, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant At the risk of engaging in non-sequiturial (which autocorrect keeps insisting should be non-equatorial) content, I want to touch on a couple of short ...

He held his head in his hands: Outpatient/Offsite Vulnerabilities

Making stock, taking stock: Emergency inventory madness!

One size fits all…or one size fits none

Don’t Call It A Comeback: The Statement of Conditions breathes again!

Going nowhere fast…nothing like the sun

Would you believe there’s nothing up my sleeve?: Protective measures

Maybe there’s a hole in there somewhere: Keeping your critical equipment running!

Don’t forget to leave room for amazement: The perils of occupational fatigue

Like water for opportunistic organisms: Protecting patients through utility systems

In a world of magnets and miracles: Shifting the sands of compliance

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