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Update: Defunct Links to/in the FAQ-niverse!

July 11, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Behavioral & Mental Health

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Greetings, fellow travelers! With special thanks to Claire Rebouche for bringing this to my attention, it appears that the links to the new ligatur...

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Déjà vu all over again: A new ligature resistant FAQ!

July 09, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Behavioral & Mental Health

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Using the Hospital FAQ page as the baseline, I reckon we’ve got about a dozen FAQs dealing with ligature resistance with this latest offering. For som...

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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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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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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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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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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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Secret Club for Members Only: Some FAQing for your reading pleasure

June 05, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant This week finds us (once again) visiting with our friends from Chicago as they stand astride the accreditation world like some ancient colossus. (I am...

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Dry your eyes: Keeping ahead of the water(s)

May 28, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant One of the more ubiquitous findings in my travels are those relating to water infiltration/intrusion: peeling paint, stained ceiling tiles, pesky grow...

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Carbon-dating compliance: What happened when…

May 21, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant …and how responsible are you for the sins of the past (turns out, quite a bit). Kind of a mixed bag of things this week, so please bear with me. ...

Update: Defunct Links to/in the FAQ-niverse!

Déjà vu all over again: A new ligature resistant FAQ!

Going nowhere fast…nothing like the sun

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

One size fits all…or one size fits none

Making stock, taking stock: Emergency inventory madness!

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

Secret Club for Members Only: Some FAQing for your reading pleasure

Dry your eyes: Keeping ahead of the water(s)

Carbon-dating compliance: What happened when…

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