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Crying my eyes out: The never-ending story of emergency eyewash equipment!

October 07, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant October seems to be shaping up into a “greatest hits” kind of month as we once again dig back into the closet of perennial findings—this week finds us...

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Ground Control to Major Compliance: EOC, baby!

September 10, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As September brings around the unwinding of summah, it also brings around The Joint Commission’s annual state of compliance sessions in locations acro...

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Maybe there’s a hole in there somewhere: Keeping your critical equipment running!

August 06, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Cybersecurity & Technology

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant An interesting line of questioning is emerging in some recent survey activity (mostly during state visits, but the accreditation organizations are mov...

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Like water for opportunistic organisms: Protecting patients through utility systems

July 30, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As a wise individual once noted, “water always wins” (at risk of betraying my nerd status, you can find the entire quote here), and it seems like wate...

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In the realm of possibility: More listening, less posturing!

July 16, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant An interesting anomaly that I encounter periodically is the time-honored “first opinion,” particularly when it exists outside of a second opinion. All...

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One size fits all…or one size fits none

June 25, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In a world in which the economies of scale don’t always economize, I keep running into situations and/or conditions that result from trying to make so...

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Don’t Call It A Comeback: The Statement of Conditions breathes again!

June 25, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Not a whole lot going on in the July 2019 issue of Perspectives, but it appears that a little more consideration will need to be paid to the Statement...

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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...

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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...

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Crying my eyes out: The never-ending story of emergency eyewash equipment!

Ground Control to Major Compliance: EOC, baby!

Maybe there’s a hole in there somewhere: Keeping your critical equipment running!

Like water for opportunistic organisms: Protecting patients through utility systems

In the realm of possibility: More listening, less posturing!

One size fits all…or one size fits none

Don’t Call It A Comeback: The Statement of Conditions breathes again!

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

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