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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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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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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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It never really ends, does it…

February 07, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Concept-wise, this week’s topic is rather limited, but there is a little bit of ground to cover. I am hopeful that this is no news for most of you, bu...

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Everything old is new again – lucky to have the work…

January 17, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant While it seems that most of the world is trying to wish away the pandemic, healthcare continues to “fight the good fight” in this longest of sieges. ...

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There’s one in every crowd…

January 24, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I suspect that this is going to be a rather brief entry (but, if I’m honest, I usually think that and then…) as it is (yet another!) entry in the “the...

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Baby Love – The Supremes Tackle the Tough Questions…

January 10, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I hope you’ll forgive me if I cheat a little bit this week; living in the Boston area, the meteorological folks have kicked things into high gear with...

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If 1 is the loneliest number…

February 21, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I think we’ve established for the foreseeable future that the regulatory survey of the physical environment—and, by extension, how one prepares for th...

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Normalizing relations – a step in a good direction…

February 28, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

A few weeks ago, the good folks at CMS revised their take on how they were going to be surveying organizations relative to their handling of COVID-19 as a specific focus. Much as the adoption of emerg...

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Where there’s smoke…

January 09, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

In the January 2023 issue of Perspectives, our friends in Chicago have unveiled the first results of their efforts to “retire” standards and performance elements that aren’t supported by code and/or r...

Striking compliance gold – but first, you gotta drill…

Apparently, it’s Monday Morning somewhere…

Sometimes when you smell something…

It never really ends, does it…

Everything old is new again – lucky to have the work…

There’s one in every crowd…

Baby Love – The Supremes Tackle the Tough Questions…

If 1 is the loneliest number…

Normalizing relations – a step in a good direction…

Where there’s smoke…

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