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Rock on: Where do we go from here?

March 31, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant It would seem that the subtext to all we are experiencing/dealing with now is how long we can anticipate this “siege” to last, and (as is typical of t...

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Time I had some time alone: How negative do we need to be?

March 24, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Just a quick couple of items this week. Don’t want to take you too far away from your primary focus! First up, I’ve been working with some folks fo...

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What a short, strange trip it’s been…

March 18, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I think we can safely say that 2020 has manifested itself in a lot of (vaguely unpleasant) ways, but this one has the potential for really shifting th...

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Logic doesn’t always prevail…a luxury you can’t afford!

March 17, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant By my observations over time, I’ve found that, all-too-often, logic finishes a distant third behind self-interest (which sometimes manifests itself as...

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If this isn’t a holdup, why are so many people wearing masks?

March 09, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I suspect this is as much a confluence of any number of (seemingly/probably) unrelated elements, including a presidential election year in a certain N...

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Burning with optimism’s flame: A future state in which surveys are less frightening…

March 03, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As you are all no doubt familiar at this point, one of the key management processes promulgated by (or is it through?) the 2012 edition of NFPA 99 Hea...

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Identifying issues and finding solutions…

February 24, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant …versus identifying issues and pointing fingers. I think we can all agree that (at least for the moment) our friends in the regulatory survey servi...

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On your marks, get set, sweat!

February 18, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant But hopefully not a Billy Idol kind of sweat… Our friends in Chicago are once again tweaking the survey process, with the result being less time fo...

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I sit at my table and wage war on myself—and earn an OSHA citation!

February 10, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant While I have a sneaking suspicion that this Top 10 list doesn’t change a whole lot from year to year (other than position in the hierarchy), I thought...

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Inside Accreditation and Quality, December 2021

February 13, 2026

Patient Safety

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Rock on: Where do we go from here?

Time I had some time alone: How negative do we need to be?

What a short, strange trip it’s been…

Logic doesn’t always prevail…a luxury you can’t afford!

If this isn’t a holdup, why are so many people wearing masks?

Burning with optimism’s flame: A future state in which surveys are less frightening…

Identifying issues and finding solutions…

On your marks, get set, sweat!

I sit at my table and wage war on myself—and earn an OSHA citation!

Inside Accreditation and Quality, December 2021

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