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Mac's Safety Space Extra: You gotta get in to get out

December 15, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant For those of you who were not tasked with traveling over Thanksgiving, but may be coming face to face with it over the next week or so (particularly i...

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Far below, where shadows fester as they grow…

December 20, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Isn’t that a jolly holiday message? So, just when you thought it couldn’t get any more stressful, our munificent friends in Chicago are bestowing y...

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And ma in her kerchief and I in my cap, had just settled down…

December 29, 2021

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant For a long winter’s discussion of the The Joint Commission's new Emergency Management chapter (https://www.jointcommission.org/-/media/tjc/documents/s...

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How many bad report cards before you have to give up your phone…up, up & away!

January 04, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In what has become one of the constants of the final quarter of the calendar year, our friends at CMS once again take aim at the disparities between t...

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Don’t think they don’t see this stuff too…

April 11, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant While I don’t doubt that we will revisit this topic at some point in the not-too-distant future, there’s been a confluence (small pun intended) of rec...

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Sometimes when you smell something…

December 17, 2025

Infection Control, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I guess this is all part of the “return to normalcy” program upon which we are (seemingly) currently embarked, but it does appear that the regulatory ...

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Apparently, it’s Monday Morning somewhere…

March 21, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

I suppose it was only a matter of time before the forensic unraveling of the last two years or so would begin to take center stage, so the latest issuance from the folks at the Association for Profess...

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Striking compliance gold – but first, you gotta drill…

March 28, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I promise that this one will be on the briefer side of things, but sometimes a straightforward approach can work out pretty well. As part of a gene...

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Where were you when the lights went out…

April 04, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

They didn’t? That’s great – but there may be folks out there with other ideas. ...

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OSHA is moving on…

April 20, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Workplace safety

OSHA is moving on and hopefully moving things forward on COVID-19 healthcare worker protections. ...

Mac's Safety Space Extra: You gotta get in to get out

Far below, where shadows fester as they grow…

And ma in her kerchief and I in my cap, had just settled down…

How many bad report cards before you have to give up your phone…up, up & away!

Don’t think they don’t see this stuff too…

Sometimes when you smell something…

Apparently, it’s Monday Morning somewhere…

Striking compliance gold – but first, you gotta drill…

Where were you when the lights went out…

OSHA is moving on…

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