As I see it, the current changes to the Joint Commission accreditation process that are barreling at us with almost alarming speed (it will be January before you know it—and I’m keeping close tabs on that, let me tell you) represent a significant opportunity to streamline the oversight processes...
Over the years, I have met a number of folks that got their healthcare start in what used to be known as housekeeping. I got in just at the end of the “housekeeping” era; we morphed into “building services.”
The more I look at the announced changes to Joint Commission’s accreditation product(s), the more it seems to me that the end result is more a reshuffling of the same deck of cards we’ve been playing with since the dawn of the life safety surveyor as part of the accreditation survey team.
Sometimes when I'm preparing a new post, I like to do a quick search to see if I'd covered the subject previously and, if so, how long ago it might have been. I recently did a search relative to the Safety Space and the hierarchy of hazard controls and found that we had touched on the subject a...
We know what works best in our house; as long as we can "frame" that work as a function of compliance, then that should be enough to pass muster during survey—don't you think?
The manifestation of experiences and deeper connections can become so powerful over time, but sometimes the “rush” of everyday life precludes our being able to truly embrace those experiences and make those deeper connections.
I think one of the best unexpected experiences I’ve had are those instances in which the Zen of a routine yields what I can only describe as a glimpse of a larger existence.
It's not necessarily what you know. It's also how effectively you can evaluate—and demonstrate—what you know. And, that you know what you're supposed to know...you know?
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.
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...
