Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2, Issue 3

Incident command hospital offers tips on handling patient surge

February 18, 2020
Emergency Management, Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety

As mass casualty events go, the 75-vehicle pileup on the Sunday before Christmas on an interstate in southeastern Virginia could have been much worse. 

Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2, Issue 3

Work with local healthcare coalitions to successfully manage mass casualty surge

February 18, 2020
Emergency Management, Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety

Build off any protocols you already have for handling extra-busy days at your emergency department (ED) to create a patient surge plan that can seamlessly expand as needed during a local disaster.

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CDC: Focus on Protecting Staff and Supplies as Coronavirus Concerns Grow

February 18, 2020
Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Patient Safety

Concerns in the public may be contributing to a growing shortage of PPE and other supplies.

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CMS offers training on new electronic form for restraint-related deaths

January 28, 2020
CMS, Environment and Facilities, Policies and Procedures, Survey Preparation

As of January 1, CMS eliminated the paper version of the form to report patient deaths associated with restraint or seclusion. Form CMS-10455 must now be filed through an electronic version.

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Use past experience with MERS, Ebola to prep for latest coronavirus

January 28, 2020
Emergency Management, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Policies and Procedures

Dig out and update your plan for screening for MERS-CoV, Ebola, measles or any other infectious disease with the latest information on the newly identified 2019 Novel Coronavirus.

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Target Long-Term Emergency Room Frequent Users to Curb Visits and Cut Costs

January 21, 2020
Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

ED frequent users make up about 4.5% to 8% of the ED patient population nationwide but account for 21% to 28% of all ED visits.

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OSHA Raises Its Civil Penalties for 2020 by Nearly 2%

January 21, 2020
Environment and Facilities, Policies and Procedures

The new penalty amounts take effect immediately, applying to any penalties assessed after January 15.

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Will you create TJC’s next Emergency Preparedness poster?

December 17, 2019
Emergency Management, Environment and Facilities, Joint Commission

Selected posters will be exhibited at the Emergency Management Standards Base Camp on April 21, and at the 2020 Emergency Preparedness Conference  on April 21 and 23.

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Fire safety may trump ligature risk, but surveyors likely will want both

December 16, 2019
Environment and Facilities, Joint Commission, Life Safety, Suicide Prevention

The Joint Commission’s (TJC) newest engineering director, Herman A. McKenzie, MBA, CHSP, told hospital leadership that life safety (LS) trumps ligature risk. But be prepared to not have a choice.

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Expect the next decade to focus on coping with new technology and old problems

December 10, 2019
Accreditation, CMS, Data Tracking, Emergency Management, Environment and Facilities, Healthcare Violence, HFAP, Infection Control, Joint Commission, Leadership, Life Safety, Medical Error Prevention, Medication Management, National Patient Safety Goals, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement, Sentinel Event Alerts, Suicide Prevention, Survey Coordinator Training, Survey Preparation

Healthcare compliance changed quite a bit in the last decade. For one thing, fire safety moved into the current millennium with the adoption of the 2012 versions of NFPA 101 Life Safety Code® (LSC) and NFPA 99 Health Care Facilities Code®.

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