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Mac's Safety Space
- Volume
13
Issue
4

Wagering on a sewer thing: How are you managing wastes during an emergency?

April 01, 2019
Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Burn, bury, or dump it—apparently there is madness in the method—and your plan needs to reflect the methodologies. I recognize that, particularly w...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality
- Volume
30
Issue
4

Dialysis tips

December 31, 2025
Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Accreditation & Survey Preparation
Here are some additional tips from Kathleen Good, MSN, RN, a former surveyor with TJC and now an associate of Patton Healthcare Consulting, for ensuring you keep patients safe and meet surveyor expect...
Mac's Safety Space
- Volume
13
Issue
3

Immediate Jeopardy: How much do you want to wager?

March 27, 2019
Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant With best wishes to Alex Trebek! Over the last couple of weeks, the folks at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (we know them by the ...
Mac's Safety Space
- Volume
13
Issue
3

Keeping an eye on things: Managing behavioral health patients

March 20, 2019
Environment and Facilities, Behavioral & Mental Health
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant What, again?!? Recently, our friends in Chicago added a new FAQ to the canon, this time reflecting on the use of video monitoring/electronic sitter...
Mac's Safety Space
- Volume
13
Issue
3

It’s been a long time: Revisiting an EOC perennial

March 13, 2019
Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Accreditation & Survey Preparation
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Setting the wayback machine for the dark ages of safety (well, 2011 or so), we come to the last time we covered the monitoring of temperature and/or h...
Mac's Safety Space
- Volume
13
Issue
3

Eat, drink, and be safe: Some guidance on the care and feeding of staff

March 06, 2019
Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant One of the more universal conditions I find is the whole issue of where staff can grab something to eat or drink in the midst of busy periods, particu...
Mac's Safety Space
- Volume
13
Issue
3

Making a checklist, making it right: Reducing compliance errors

March 01, 2019
Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As you may have noticed, I am something of a fan of public radio (most of my listening in vehicles involves NPR and its analogues) and every once in a...
Patient Safety Monitor Journal
- Volume
20
Issue
3

Look to ‘Blueprint’ to understand new EPA requirements on hazardous drug waste

December 31, 2025
Environment and Facilities, Infection Control
Consider managing all your pharmaceuticals as hazardous waste, especially if you are a smaller facility. And warn your C-suite that you’ll be scrutinized for compliance once new environmental regulati...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality
- Volume
30
Issue
3

Harris Health System vs. Hurricane Harvey

December 31, 2025
Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities
It’s been one year since Hurricane Harvey struck Houston, flooding the city and displacing tens of thousands of people. In one week, the Category 4 storm dropped 61 inches of rain and caused $125 bill...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality
- Volume
30
Issue
3

Part one: ECRI tech hazards 2019

December 31, 2025
Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control
The ECRI Institute published its annual list of the top 10 health technology hazards facing healthcare in 2019. Longtime readers will recognize several hazards from ECRI’s 2018 and 2017 lists, such as...

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