Environment and Facilities

Holiday decorations can be infectious. And not in a good way, if they are in your hospital corridors and waiting areas.Read More »

Be ready for surveyors with The Joint Commission to be ramping back up pre-pandemic levels. And the environment of care, fire safety and...Read More »

Be forewarned that CMS and other surveyors who were lax on some requirements within the physical environment during the COVID-19 public health...Read More »

Since this is the season for evergreens, let’s close out 2022 with a little eyewash station madness.Read More »

As I write this, it is the anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and I think you could make the...Read More »

Careful with those holiday decorations. They can bring joy, but too much joy can also bring a citation from CMS,  accrediting organizations or the...Read More »

All signs point to a turbulent 2022–2023 winter season, according to an ...Read More »

“Because we are still on the 2012 edition [of the Life Safety Code^® (LSC)], there isn’t anything new,” Wytosick says...Read More »

Concerns relating to violence in the healthcare workplace has been with us a long time (was there ever a time when it wasn’t somewhere in the mix...Read More »

Those scenarios remind me of labs that suddenly need to use the emergency shower—and are quite unprepared for the event.Read More »