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If you don’t signal, how will I know where you want to go? Emergency management and its discontents (Just What You Needed)!

September 17, 2019

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Kind of a mixed bag this week, though it all fits under the heading of emergency management, so here goes nothing… A few weeks ago, USA Today did a...

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Ground Control to Major Compliance: EOC, baby!

September 10, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As September brings around the unwinding of summah, it also brings around The Joint Commission’s annual state of compliance sessions in locations acro...

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Reusables vs. single-use: The next round in the World Series of Risk Assessments?

September 04, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As summer starts its (hopefully) gradual fade into the record books and the marathon of the baseball season starts its kick to the finish line, it see...

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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 ...

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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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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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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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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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People get ready: There’s a (survey) train a-coming!

July 23, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant When it comes right down to it, I think it is nigh on impossible to have access to too many resources or, indeed, to have access to too many perspecti...

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In the realm of possibility: More listening, less posturing!

July 16, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant An interesting anomaly that I encounter periodically is the time-honored “first opinion,” particularly when it exists outside of a second opinion. All...

If you don’t signal, how will I know where you want to go? Emergency management and its discontents (Just What You Needed)!

Ground Control to Major Compliance: EOC, baby!

Reusables vs. single-use: The next round in the World Series of Risk Assessments?

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

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

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

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

Like water for opportunistic organisms: Protecting patients through utility systems

People get ready: There’s a (survey) train a-coming!

In the realm of possibility: More listening, less posturing!

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