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Night time in the switching yard: Listen to the train(ing) whistle whine

July 19, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I suspect that, amongst all the other things that have been pounding on the metaphorical rooftops, you saw the updated guidance from OSHA relating to ...

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Protection is improvement, improvement is protection: Keeping folks safe from workplace violence

July 12, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant When it comes to the management of workplace violence considerations, I think we all have experienced the many, many ways in which these risks can man...

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If you remember nothing else: Nothing happens in isolation

July 06, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant With the (presumed) onset of regulatory surveys including a more thorough review of survey results past, I would imagine that everyone out there in th...

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In your eyes: The light, the heat, the flushing fluid

June 28, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As is often the case (it probably says more about me than anything else, but what can one do?), it seems that there are always conversations to have a...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Coronavirus pandemic drives growth of hospital at home programs

December 21, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

After modest uptake for nearly three decades, hospital at home programs are now growing faster across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic. Johns Hopkins Medicine launched the country’s firs...

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They blew the horns…and the walls came down!

June 21, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Continuing our intermittent discussion about returning to normalcy on the facilities operations front, I’ve been reflecting on the monumental amount o...

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Every once in a while…

June 14, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant …I make good on the promise of brevity. Let’s see if this is one of those weeks. As we continue to wind down from the various and sundry modificati...

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Bye bye, business occupancy?

June 07, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant To my fairly certain knowledge, I’ve tried to stay away from anything that might approximate “click bait,” though I will freely admit that this week’s...

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Stop making sense: Normalizing abnormality…

June 01, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Cybersecurity & Technology

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant A brief foray this week, though I hope that is very much in keeping with you all being able to grab a few moments for yourselves over the holiday week...

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If there weren’t challenges…

May 24, 2021

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant …it really wouldn’t be an event that requires emergency response. Somehow over the last little while, the fundamental nature of what constitutes an...

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Night time in the switching yard: Listen to the train(ing) whistle whine

Protection is improvement, improvement is protection: Keeping folks safe from workplace violence

If you remember nothing else: Nothing happens in isolation

In your eyes: The light, the heat, the flushing fluid

Coronavirus pandemic drives growth of hospital at home programs

They blew the horns…and the walls came down!

Every once in a while…

Bye bye, business occupancy?

Stop making sense: Normalizing abnormality…

If there weren’t challenges…

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