While there are certainly many prognosticators in the media that are not held accountable for missteps, for those charged with providing a safe and secure environment, there’s not a lot of wiggle room when it comes to identifying protective measures that will keep things running smoothly.
One of the truisms of the compliance biz is that it is very difficult to argue your way out of a finding if that finding is the result of your organization failing to comply with its own policy/practice.
I don’t know that I’d run across this much over the last little while (I can see where it might have been more prevalent in healthcare during the early Wild West days of the pandemic), but apparently there have been enough issues relating to ill-fitting Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as it...
In one of those bizarre moments, I was looking at this week’s missive from the good folks at ASHE when I espied the following headline: “Window closing to comply with CMS sprinkler requirement.” My first thought was, what does closing a window have to do with CMS and sprinkler requirements?
In looking back at some of the events that have buffeted healthcare (yes, I’m talking to you, pandemic!), I’m trying to wrap my head around how a healthcare organization would have been able to stay open and operational without having the essential elements of a COOP.
To frame the conversation, the state of New Jersey is in the process of implementing one of the (if not the) most comprehensive regulatory requirements relative to the management of water as a function of waterborne illnesses. Certainly, the folks in healthcare are already managing these risks,...
Anyone who’s followed this Space for any length of time knows I am rather fond of the twists and turns of language, but only when those twists and turns reflect a fair degree of precision. Those twists and turns come to a screeching halt in the face of words that are treated as synonyms, and the...
This is rather more of an aspirational post (i.e., a rant) this week as the evidence from the field shows no sign that the unsettling depths of physical environment findings are likely to decrease any time soon. At risk of sounding like an elderly neighbor telling the kids to stay off their lawn...
You have to know where you shut them off—make sure you label those shutoff valves!
That’s one of the pearls of wisdom dispensed during the most recent Executive Briefings by our friends in Chicago. It appears that there’s been a run on unlabeled shutoff valves during this year’s surveys,...
