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Let’s begin again, begin the begin: CMS ligature risks codified!

May 13, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Behavioral & Mental Health

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant While I have little doubt that we will yet again revisit the management of ligature risks and behavioral health patients, it would seem that chapter a...

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Like the dust that settles all around me: I got those low-down TJC FAQ blues

May 06, 2019

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

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I don’t know if there’s anything to be inferred by the fact that the latest updates on the ligature resistance front are “buried” on p. 8 of the May 2...

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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day: EOC orientation and ongoing education

April 29, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Going to touch on a couple of things this week. First up? Ed-yoo-ma-cation! A week or so back, I received an email encouraging me to list what educ...

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I’d like to know, can you tell me, please don’t tell me: Behavioral health and egress

April 22, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In response to last week’s modified Top 10 list (there’s been a request for another list regarding point-of-care/point-of-service staff knowledge of E...

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We are hope, despite the times: Steve Mac’s top 10 most troublesome EC challenges

April 16, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant First a quick (moderately revelatory) story: While traveling last week, I had the opportunity to see Creed II on the plane (I found it very entertaini...

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One of your sprinkler heads is loaded: Can you find it before they do?

April 08, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant And now, to the recap of the 10 most frequently cited standards during all of 2018 (in hospitals; other programs are a little more varied), as chosen ...

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Wagering on a sewer thing: How are you managing wastes during an emergency?

April 01, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Burn, bury, or dump it—apparently there is madness in the method—and your plan needs to reflect the methodologies. I recognize that, particularly w...

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Immediate Jeopardy: How much do you want to wager?

March 27, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant With best wishes to Alex Trebek! Over the last couple of weeks, the folks at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (we know them by the ...

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Keeping an eye on things: Managing behavioral health patients

March 20, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Behavioral & Mental Health

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant What, again?!? Recently, our friends in Chicago added a new FAQ to the canon, this time reflecting on the use of video monitoring/electronic sitter...

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It’s been a long time: Revisiting an EOC perennial

March 13, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Setting the wayback machine for the dark ages of safety (well, 2011 or so), we come to the last time we covered the monitoring of temperature and/or h...

Let’s begin again, begin the begin: CMS ligature risks codified!

Like the dust that settles all around me: I got those low-down TJC FAQ blues

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day: EOC orientation and ongoing education

I’d like to know, can you tell me, please don’t tell me: Behavioral health and egress

We are hope, despite the times: Steve Mac’s top 10 most troublesome EC challenges

One of your sprinkler heads is loaded: Can you find it before they do?

Wagering on a sewer thing: How are you managing wastes during an emergency?

Immediate Jeopardy: How much do you want to wager?

Keeping an eye on things: Managing behavioral health patients

It’s been a long time: Revisiting an EOC perennial

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