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	<title>Mac&#039;s Safety Space &#187; Emergency management</title>
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		<title>OSHA&#8217;s big messages with new H1N1 compliance directive</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/oshas-big-messages-with-new-h1n1-compliance-directive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note that OSHA today posted a compliance directive that helps guide inspectors as they visit hospitals treating potential or confirmed H1N1 swine flu patients.
I think there are two broad messages to take out of the compliance directive:

Hospitals had better be following the CDC&#8217;s guidelines on protecting healthcare workers from H1N1 exposures
There must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t sacrifice patient comfort for drill realism</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/don%e2%80%99t-sacrifice-patient-comfort-for-drill-realism/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/don%e2%80%99t-sacrifice-patient-comfort-for-drill-realism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was discussing emergency management scenarios involving a bomb threat and whether such exercises needed to include the movement of actual patients.
I don&#8217;t think it’s unreasonable to craft an exercise that does not involve the relocation of patients. While I can appreciate that the more &#8220;real&#8221; you can be during an exercise, the better, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the Fort Hood shootings, Twitter proves useful for one hospital</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/after-the-fort-hood-shootings-twitter-proves-useful-for-one-hospital/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/after-the-fort-hood-shootings-twitter-proves-useful-for-one-hospital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joint Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many people, social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are frequently used to quote movie lines or discuss whether they had coffee or hair of the dog with their Corn Flakes. But from a professional standpoint, The Joint Commission is encouraging the use of social sites for emergency management purposes.
Thursday&#8217;s shootings at Fort Hood, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Try a free sample of our customizable paper patients</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/try-a-free-sample-of-our-customizable-paper-patients/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/try-a-free-sample-of-our-customizable-paper-patients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of development, we’re happy to announce our new Emergency Preparedness Solutions series, which we think you’ll like.
The highlight for me, because it’s something I’ve wanted to see us publish for a long time, is a collection of 80 paper patients that are customizable to your hospital’s drill or triage efforts.
These paper patients were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CDC revisions continue to recommend N95 use, but acknowledge supply shortages</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/cdc-revisions-continue-to-recommend-n95-use-but-acknowledge-supply-shortages/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/cdc-revisions-continue-to-recommend-n95-use-but-acknowledge-supply-shortages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emergency management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CDC issued revised interim guidelines yesterday to protect healthcare workers from the H1N1 swine flu virus.
The biggest news is that the CDC continues to recommend that healthcare workers wear N95 respirators when in close contact (i.e., within 6 ft.) of patients with suspected or confirmed H1H1.
However, the CDC also noted N95 supply concerns and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Joint Commission VP among those appearing at our one-day emergency management conference</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/former-joint-commission-vp-among-those-appearing-at-our-one-day-emergency-management-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/former-joint-commission-vp-among-those-appearing-at-our-one-day-emergency-management-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get help analyzing your hospital’s disaster plans while also bolstering your professional development during HCPro’s Emergency Management Coordinator’s Workshop, which takes place October 26 in Atlanta.
Our experts for the program include:

Joseph Cappiello, chair of Cappiello &#38; Associates in Elmhurst, IL, and former vice president for accreditation field operations at The Joint Commission
James Kendig, vice president [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most of you are well prepared for disaster response, but there’s always the unpredictable event</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/09/most-of-you-are-well-prepared-for-disaster-response-but-there%e2%80%99s-always-the-unpredictable-event/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/09/most-of-you-are-well-prepared-for-disaster-response-but-there%e2%80%99s-always-the-unpredictable-event/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[96-hour provision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[H1N1 swine flu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/?p=1860</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I really think &#8212; this being my ever so humble opinion based on my observations &#8212; that most hospitals are adequately prepared to respond to the emergencies they have identified as being the most likely to occur.
That&#8217;s not to say there are not improvement opportunities, because there will always be ways to become better prepared, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The challenges that tie healthcare facilities back to 9/11</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/09/the-challenges-that-tie-healthcare-facilities-back-to-911/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/09/the-challenges-that-tie-healthcare-facilities-back-to-911/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joint Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[96-hour provision]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2001, I remember talking to quite a few hospital safety officers and emergency planners about the way the world had changed after 9/11. It wasn&#8217;t just the hijacked jets in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania &#8212; soon after, the nation was in the midst of anthrax attacks via the mail and there was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluating your emergency management inventory process</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/09/evaluating-your-emergency-management-inventory-process/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/09/evaluating-your-emergency-management-inventory-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joint Commission standard EM.03.01.01, EP 3 requires an annual review of your emergency management inventory process.
This is where you look back at exercises and real events and see if:

Resources, assets, etc. were managed appropriately
There were shortcomings and if so, what can be done to better manage them in the future (additional redundancies, etc.)
There were things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times story is a &#8220;must read&#8221; for emergency planners</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/08/new-york-times-story-is-a-must-read-for-emergency-planners/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/08/new-york-times-story-is-a-must-read-for-emergency-planners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[96-hour provision]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times just published a sad yet enlightening account of what happened at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in the days after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.
Many of you will remember that Memorial Medical was isolated and without power for days as employees and patients suffered through terrible conditions in the sweltering [...]]]></description>
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