Unless you take a good inventory of the safety issues around your facility, the medical clinic or laboratory can be dangerous when the weather...Read More »
The practice of de-escalation isn’t as heavily researched or defined as other best practices. Even TJC’s alert cautions that there’s been little...Read More »
Consider managing all your pharmaceuticals as hazardous waste, especially if you are a smaller facility. And warn your C-suite that you’ll be...Read More »
It’s been one year since Hurricane Harvey struck Houston, flooding the city and displacing tens of thousands of people. In one week, the Category...Read More »
The ECRI Institute published its annual list of the top 10 health technology hazards facing healthcare in 2019. Longtime readers will recognize...Read More »
Fire drills are to be conducted at varying times and should not be done in a predictable pattern. The Joint Commission requires that fire drills vary by at least one hour from each quarter to quarter for each shift, through four consecutive quarters. It's recommended facilities use a Fire Drill...
Customize the answers to the practice at your institution. This tracer is intended to guide you in understanding the types of questions that may be asked by the surveyor. It cannot guarantee these will be the questions asked.
NPSG.06.01.01 requires hospitals and critical access hospitals...
