Actually, that title is a bit misleading because, truth be told, the most frequently cited conditions in the physical environment as collated by our friends from Chicago over the past year or so are pretty much the ones they’ve been for as far back as I can remember (which is far enough).
As I see it, the current changes to the Joint Commission accreditation process that are barreling at us with almost alarming speed (it will be January before you know it—and I’m keeping close tabs on that, let me tell you) represent a significant opportunity to streamline the oversight processes...
Over the years, I have met a number of folks that got their healthcare start in what used to be known as housekeeping. I got in just at the end of the “housekeeping” era; we morphed into “building services.”
The more I look at the announced changes to Joint Commission’s accreditation product(s), the more it seems to me that the end result is more a reshuffling of the same deck of cards we’ve been playing with since the dawn of the life safety surveyor as part of the accreditation survey team.
