Didn’t have time to gather your thoughts yet on OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring vaccination and testing for employers with 100 or more employees? You can still offer up your two cents!
OSHA has extended the public comment period until January 19, 2022. (The original...
Q: We just had a CMS validation survey and received a finding under K-tag K-926 for not having good enough documentation of training on oxygen transportation. How many times a year do we have to give training on this? Is annual plus new-hire training enough?
In the last Healthcare Safety Leader, we noted the caustic chemicals found in the basement of a hospital by Ernest E. Allen, ARM, CSP, CPHRM, CHFM, a former life safety surveyor and now Life Safety consultant with HealthTechS3, then asked, “What else should be in the basement...
In case you missed it, here’s a compilation of breaking news from the Accreditation & Quality Compliance Center since Healthcare Safety Leader was last published.
In the upcoming year, surveys will include new standards, revised requirements, modified processes and procedures, and a continued focus on infection control and fire safety. However, none of that promises to be more difficult than facing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unfortunately, there will...
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - Volume 25, Issue 1
There’s nothing simple about running a healthcare facility. With complex moving parts creating an operationally challenging environment, hospitals can’t afford to be inefficient or lag behind. How healthcare organizations use resources today is key to how they will evolve into the future....
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - Volume 25, Issue 1
Even pre-pandemic, hospitals were prime targets for hackers and other online threats. That condition has only grown worse over the past 18 months, with vaccine infrastructure becoming a tempting target for bad actors in addition to hospital systems’ continuing vulnerability to ransomware attacks...
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance - Volume 25, Issue 1
The first time in any job can be hard, but learning the ins and outs of survey compliance in facilities management—with standards on top of regulations on top of local requirements on top of state requirements—can be overwhelming.
We asked some experienced survey and safety experts what...
Real-time visibility into patient care beyond the acute care setting is more important than ever. Hospitals are more reliant on ambulatory care providers as part of the patient’s care journey, and the quality of patient outcomes depends on collaboration between hospitals, postacute providers,...
