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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 ...

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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...

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Mass evacuations: Using TRAIN matrix to triage patients

December 20, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Physical environment

BY BRIAN T. WARD (BWARD@HCPRO.COM) AND A.J. PLUNKETT (APLUNKETT@DECISIONHEALTH.COM) You can modify the Triage by Resource Allocation for IN-patient (TRAIN) matrix to suit your facility’s needs in c...

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Manage the environment, manage infection control risks

January 10, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In looking back at 2018 (heck, even in looking back to the beginning of 2019—it already seems like forever ago and we’re only a week in!), I try to us...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Joint Commission surveyors to focus on suicide, self-harm, and ligature

September 04, 2024

Climate Change, Cybersecurity & Technology, Health Equity, Physical environment

The Joint Commission announced that as of March 1, its surveyors will place special focus on suicide, self-harm, and ligature observations in psychiatric hospitals and units. Now, surveyors will docum...

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One of your sprinkler heads is loaded: Can you find it before they do?

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

Mass evacuations: Using TRAIN matrix to triage patients

Manage the environment, manage infection control risks

Joint Commission surveyors to focus on suicide, self-harm, and ligature

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