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Does your healthcare facility have water intrusion?

June 29, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

Protect your building and patients from fungal exposure ...

Mac's Safety Space

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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...

Mac's Safety Space

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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...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Prioritize sepsis assessments in your overcrowded emergency department

June 29, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

Emergency department crowding leads to a significant increase in door-to-antibiotic time for septic patients, recent research shows. ...

Mac's Safety Space

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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...

Mac's Safety Space

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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...

Mac's Safety Space

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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 ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Spring safety: Tuning up your clinic security as it heats up

June 29, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Quality & Errors

Unless you take a good inventory of the safety issues around your facility, the medical clinic or laboratory can be dangerous when the weather warms up. Here are the things safety experts say you shou...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Talk down: Joint Commission on de-escalation

June 29, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Environment and Facilities, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety

The practice of de-escalation isn’t as heavily researched or defined as other best practices. Even TJC’s alert cautions that there’s been little research done on its effectiveness. However, the positi...

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Does your healthcare facility have water intrusion?

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

Prioritize sepsis assessments in your overcrowded emergency department

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?

Spring safety: Tuning up your clinic security as it heats up

Talk down: Joint Commission on de-escalation

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