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Check out our hospital safety ‘tweets’ on Twitter

I finally stepped fully into 2009 and have begun sending updates via the Twitter social networking site. You can see for yourself at http://twitter.com/hospitalsafety.

For those unfamiliar with Twitter, at its core is the ability for users to post short, 140-character updates — known as “tweets” — about what they’re doing. You can keep track of other people’s tweets you’re interested in (i.e., folks you’re “following”) and also see who’s reading your tweets (i.e., who your “followers” are). You need to be registered with Twitter to follow someone’s tweets.

While in some ways Twitter comes across as “too much information,” it is a useful tool to bring news to you, rather than you having to search it out every day.

For example, this week I’ve tweeted about the risk of exposed sprinkler pipes and how hospital engineers can help their CEOs identify inefficiencies. Also, I’m sticking with the topic at hand, hospital safety and environment of care — you won’t see posts from me about the food I ate at lunch or what scenes I most enjoy from Glengarry Glen Ross.

Congrats go out to the winner of our ASHE exhibit booth raffle

Winner Antonio Suarez with HCPro's Amy Jones

Congratulations are in order for Antonio Suarez, director of facilities services at Doctors Hospital at White Rock Lake in Dallas, who won a $200 American Express gift card during our booth raffle at ASHE this week.

Antonio is pictured with Amy Jones, a product marketing director here at HCPro.

Brad Keyes, life safety consultant with the Greeley Company, took the photo. I ran for cover when Brad grabbed his camera.

Thanks to everyone else who stopped by our booth to talk about hospital safety and environment of care concerns  — we enjoyed meeting all of you.

Hope to see you at the ASHE conference next week

I’ll be traveling out to Anaheim this weekend to attend the annual ASHE conference August 2-5. If you’re also going, stop by booth 462 in the exhibit hall to say hello.

Joining me there will be Brad Keyes, life safety consultant at the Greeley Company and contributing technical editor for our Healthcare Life Safety Compliance newsletter. I always get a kick out of how many facility and safety professionals remember Keyes from his days as a Joint Commission life safety surveyor.

I hope to post some blog items while at the ASHE show, so watch here for any updates.

Symposium coverage: All different and all the same – the dichotomy of the safety community

Howdy folks.

First off, I’d like to thank everyone who attended the 3rd Annual Hospital Safety Center Symposium in Las Vegas, especially my esteemed colleagues and presenters: Dean Samet, Joe Cappiello, Marge McFarlane, and my Greeley cohort, Brad Keyes. Your presentations were illuminating and everything one could expect — props to all of you. We are all the better [more]

Attention symposium attendees: Pre-registration begins Wednesday evening

Hi everyone, it’s Scott Wallask checking in. I’d like to encourage those of you attending the 3rd Annual Hospital Safety Center Symposium in Las Vegas this week to consider pre-registration on Wednesday evening in advance of Thursday morning’s opening session.

Our pre-registration takes place from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the conference center at Caesars Palace. The time you save on Thursday morning could mean some extra sleep, an early chance to catch up on e-mails, or a few added moments to wait in line for your favorite cup of coffee.

By the way, the Hospital Safety Center Symposium sessions take place in the Pisa/Palermo rooms of the conference center.

Five reasons to attend the Hospital Safety Center Symposium

Hello, it’s Scott Wallask logging in. There’s still time to make plans to attend the 3rd Annual Hospital Safety Center Symposium May 14-15 in Las Vegas, and to nudge those of you on the fence, here are five great reasons to join us: [more]

Want to help me out at the Hospital Safety Center Symposium?

I can’t help but think that my blog session at the 3rd Annual Hospital Safety Center Symposium may in fact generate further blog postings. A vicious circle, say I, but how vicious? That will be yours to say . . .

That said, in the spirit of the new season (admittedly that’s a stretch, but stretching is what we, as safety professionals, do best), if any one out there in the blogosphere would like to suggest [more]

Let us e-mail you blog post updates

I don’t know if everyone knows this, but at the top right corner of the page, there’s a box that lets you type in your e-mail address to receive daily updates about new blog postings to Mac’s Safety Space.

It’s a great feature if you forget to check the site but want to read the posts. The e-mails only come once a day, and you can link directly to the full posts if a topic interests you. I use the e-mail alerts myself for a little quality control on behalf of HCPro, so I give the feature two thumbs up.

Special offer to join our free audio conference on January 29

Hi everyone, it’s Scott Wallask checking in today. I wanted to let all of you know about a special, totally free audio conference that we’re holding on January 29 at 1 p.m. Eastern. [more]

A new look, but the same hospital safety focus

Hi everyone, it’s Scott Wallask here. As you can see, we’ve spiffed up the blog with a new design which will make it easier to read.

There are some new features I wanted to point out to you: [more]