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They’re baaaack: TJC returns to the fray!

June 01, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Last week, our friends in Chicago announced that they will be resuming the survey grind in June (in all candor, I too will be heading out on the highw...

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A little mo’ from the Mighty O (ccupational Safety & Health Administration)

June 08, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As they are wont to do, the folks at OSHA periodically issue safety alerts and it would seem that the ongoing challenges of managing the ongoing occup...

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We advance, masked!

June 15, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In the topsy turvy world of Personal Protective Equipment (aka PPE), there are some developments on the decontamination/reprocessing of masks that I w...

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And it makes me wonder…sure does!

June 23, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant And it’s not just a bustle in your hedgerow, so alarm might be warranted… Lately, I’ve been using this space to muse on the potential for changes t...

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Probably not the final word on outpatient clinic settings

June 29, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Sometimes I have a difficult time finding a unifying “thread” for the weekly chronicle and other times the way forward is fairly clear. This week may ...

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Brother/Sister, can you spare a sprinkler head?

July 06, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant This week, I continue my ruminations on all things relating to outpatient care sites (Quick question: Is there anyone out there who doesn’t have respo...

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Stuck on the same refrain: Outpatient! Outpatient! Outpatient!

July 13, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I’m hoping to break the spell in kind of a reverse Beetlejuice invocation… As we try to obtain some level of clarity relative to the Joint Commissi...

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Take me to your leaders

May 17, 2021

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

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I believe that we’ll be able to wrap up the emergency management stuff next week—though I have one or two ideas percolating that I might move to the f...

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Risk assessments: Don’t leave home without one!

May 04, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant An interesting phenomenon I’ve been encountering of late relates to the whole notion of having to do environmental risk assessments in locations that ...

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You better? You bet!

May 10, 2021

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant It would seem that while the rest of the world has been busy responding to a pandemic, the folks behind the scenes have been working on identifying th...

They’re baaaack: TJC returns to the fray!

A little mo’ from the Mighty O (ccupational Safety & Health Administration)

We advance, masked!

And it makes me wonder…sure does!

Probably not the final word on outpatient clinic settings

Brother/Sister, can you spare a sprinkler head?

Stuck on the same refrain: Outpatient! Outpatient! Outpatient!

Take me to your leaders

Risk assessments: Don’t leave home without one!

You better? You bet!

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