The Joint Commission is training a lot of new Life Safety surveyors as it tries to catch up with the backlog and limit split surveys in which clinical surveyors may show up weeks before their LS colleagues.
Check patient units to ensure breast milk and other patient foods are stored correctly, encourage staff to reach out to providers if medication orders are not clear, and check crash carts for expired or missing items.
The Joint Commission (TJC) is training new life safety surveyors as fast as it can, wants to trim accreditation requirements that increase burden unnecessarily, and hopes to be caught up on surveys by the first of the year.
