A couple of fairly short (and somewhat disparate, but the risk assessment process can figure in both) items this week: one a question/thought relating to emergency management and...
While the focus of compliance tends to revolve around rules, regulations and such, I think it’s clear that one of the greatest challenges in healthcare is the attraction and retention of staff.
While 100% of the potential for elevated risks of a healthcare-acquired infection (HAI) does not walk through the doors of your emergency department, you could certainly make the case that a fairly high quotient of at-risk “traffic” is going to enter your facility through the emergency...
As I think has been established, when it comes to the vehicle of compliance (particularly as a function of sustainability), the color palette is very much an infinite set of shady grayness.
In years past, the term-ending grades for the various accreditation organizations have been transmitted to Congress in the late fall/early winter (the winter portion depends on where you are), but for Fiscal Year ’21 (Oct. 1, 2019 – Sept. 30, 2020), ...
If one accepts that one of the fundamental goals of the accreditation survey process is to generate findings, there is no reason to think that frequently cited standards, etc., by other organizations providing oversight (for instance, our good friends at OSHA) might not draw some attention when...
It seems there is a movement afoot in the surveyor ranks to try to identify processes that have been in place so long that the results of any risk assessment are likely fossilized, or to find conditions or practices for which risk assessments have not been “officially” documented.
As we rapidly approach May 11 and the official termination of the Public Health Emergency relating to COVID-19, I realized that I’ve been “sitting” on some COVID stuff that I wanted to get to you folks before it became too long in the tooth. The world’s response over the last three years or so...
We can finally close the book, so to speak, on survey year 2022 and, in so doing, ponder the forces that come into play to increase the degree(s) of difficulty when it comes to compliance. And, in case you hadn’t guessed, the forces that come into play in the (drum roll) physical environment.
