Many hospital leaders remain uncertain about how to respond effectively to workplace violence or other crisis events, both in the moment and over time.
Surveyors from CMS, The Joint Commission, and other healthcare accreditors are trained to seek and find accreditation violations when they tour a hospital or clinic. And once they find those violations, they have no qualms about reporting noncompliance.
Without this becoming an advertisement for LinkedIn, I do think that there's a lot of interesting content from a wide variety of sources, and there's one that really piqued my interest recently.
This is Part 2 of our interview with Jason P. Nagy, PhD, MLS(ASCP), QLS; Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS; and Sean G. Kaufman on preventing and responding to exposures in the laboratory.
For some reason, I've been spending a fair amount of time contemplating the points at which making meaningful improvements to one's structure or infrastructure become insurmountable. I can't say that I'm throwing in the towel, as a going concern, but the notion of "having got your monies' worth...
This is Part 2 of our interview with Scott Wytosick, CFPS, CFI-II, fire and life safety consultant at Jensen Hughes, and former life safety coordinator at Akron Children’s Hospital, on wayfinding and signage in healthcare.
Preparing your hospital for an accreditation survey is stressful, year-round work. Because survey schedules are unannounced, accreditation professionals must always be ready for CMS, The Joint Commission, or other accrediting organizations to show up at their door.
