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And now a brief word from…

August 30, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant The source of any number of potential nightmares… Sorry for the extraordinarily late notice on this, but our friends at the Occupational Safety &am...

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Time has come today: There’s late and there’s LATE

August 23, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Depending on where you are, you may be bumping up against process elements that are causing certain activities to be “late,” even beyond the grace per...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Case study: Mockup patient rooms

December 21, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Quality & Errors

It’s not every day that doctors, nurses, and other clinicians get to help design their new hospital. Providers are doing just that at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital in California. The organizati...

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Looking back, looking ahead: Where did all the heroes go?

August 16, 2021

Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant For those of you who have been watching this space for a while, it is probably a pretty good likelihood that you know that I (at times) have a tendenc...

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Processing processes: Keeping everything in front of you…

August 10, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I’m thinking that there’s probably a fairly limited number of you folks for whom durable medical equipment (DME) is part of your “span of control,” th...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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AIHA voices concerns about COVID-19 ETS

December 21, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

On July 27, AIHA (formerly the American Industrial Hygiene Association) revealed concerns about the federal COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) in a 13-page letter to the Occupational Safety a...

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Making movies on location…

August 02, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant One of the constants of any effective physical environment/safety program is the effort to ensure that folks at point-of-care/point-of-service are pro...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Beware these common problems with business occupancies

December 21, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

Update your inspection, testing, and maintenance documentation and check your exit signs when preparing to host life safety surveyors from The Joint Commission (TJC) at your business occupancies. (For...

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Maybe this time we should do things a little differently

July 26, 2021

Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant This may be a “me” thing, but it seems to me that I’ve seen a lot of annual evaluations recently that only minimally make note of organizational respo...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Update SOCs for off-campus buildings as TJC targets business occupancies

December 21, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

Be sure your facility electronic Statement of Conditions™ (eSOC) and Basic Building Information (eBBI) are up to date with accurate business occupancy information. Expect life safety (LS) surveyors to...

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And now a brief word from…

Time has come today: There’s late and there’s LATE

Case study: Mockup patient rooms

Looking back, looking ahead: Where did all the heroes go?

Processing processes: Keeping everything in front of you…

AIHA voices concerns about COVID-19 ETS

Making movies on location…

Beware these common problems with business occupancies

Maybe this time we should do things a little differently

Update SOCs for off-campus buildings as TJC targets business occupancies

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