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	<title>Mac&#039;s Safety Space &#187; EC</title>
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		<title>You may be able to roll a monthly generator test into the triennial four-hour run</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/you-may-be-able-to-roll-a-monthly-generator-test-into-the-triennial-four-hour-run/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some hospitals do not have enough power tied into the generators to make 30% of nameplate on a monthly basis as required by The Joint Commission under environment of care standard EC.02.05.07, element of performance (EP) 4.
In the interest of making very sure that they are sufficiently testing the generators, these organizations sometimes conduct a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digging into why LS.02.01.20 tops the most cited standards list</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to one of the writers for our Briefings on Hospital Safety newsletter and the question came up about The Joint Commission’s recently released top cited standards.
The frequently cited standards are pretty much a numbers game and a continuation of the Life Safety Code compliance trends from 2007 and 2008, when it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even splintered, life safety standards top the citation list so far in 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When The Joint Commission announced a while back that the old EC.5.20 was the top cited standard in hospitals in 2008, there some observers (including me) who thought that statistic would be hard to repeat. After all, it was reasoned, the all-encompassing EC.5.20 had splintered into various new life safety standards in 2009, none of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be wary about using fire drills as emergency management tests</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked whether fire drills could count towards The Joint Commission’s requirements for emergency management tests under EM.03.01.03.
I suppose if you evaluated a fire drill to the extent called for under EM.03.01.03, including monitoring of the key response capabilities, you might &#8212; and I can not emphasize enough “might” &#8212; be able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further thoughts on patient-owned equipment in the hospital</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick follow-up to a post I made last week about patient-owned equipment coming into the hospital:
One thing you might want to consider relative to these types of devices is whether (primarily as a customer satisfaction strategy) you&#8217;d want to provide certain devices &#8212; for example hair dryers &#8212; as part of the room furnishings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joint Commission offers guidance, but no mandates, for patient-owned items</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you deal with patient-owned equipment, such as hair dryers, coming into the hospital.
The Joint Commission published an FAQ on this topic last year, and this is one of those instances in which, in opening the risk assessment door, the FAQ provides just enough semi-specific information to confuse matters.
My first piece of advice in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No hard-and-fast rule to discuss patient safety at EC committee meetings</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/no-hard-and-fast-rule-to-discuss-patient-safety-at-ec-committee-meetings/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/no-hard-and-fast-rule-to-discuss-patient-safety-at-ec-committee-meetings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no Joint Commission mandate for patient-safety-related concerns to be managed through the environment of care or safety committee.
Some of the former EC standards (or more properly, EPs) that were removed with the 2009 changeover did imply the expectation of a line of communication between the patient safety and physical environment folks.
One thing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultimate fighting star&#8217;s alleged assaults reinforce the danger of healthcare work</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/ultimate-fighting-stars-alleged-assaults-reinforce-the-danger-of-healthcare-work/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/ultimate-fighting-stars-alleged-assaults-reinforce-the-danger-of-healthcare-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of workplace violence in hospitals rose out of the weeds again yesterday with word that a Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) star had been arrested for allegedly assaulting three nurses at a hospital in Nevada on Tuesday.
Fighter Junie Browning, who was fired by UFC following his arrest, originally went to St. Rose Dominican Hospital&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ensure someone in-house at least monitors medical equipment maintenance</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/ensure-someone-in-house-at-least-monitors-medical-equipment-maintenance/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/ensure-someone-in-house-at-least-monitors-medical-equipment-maintenance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an empirical standpoint, each department with medical equipment being maintained by contract should have an inventory and be able to quantify compliance with whatever preventive maintenance sequence is identified.
The Joint Commission grants a lot of leeway in letting you determine how you&#8217;re going to carry this out, but there is an expectation that at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Joint Commission doesn’t mandate infant abduction drills, but …</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/the-joint-commission-doesn%e2%80%99t-mandate-infant-abduction-drills-but-%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suspect that the reason The Joint Commission doesn’t (or perhaps even can&#8217;t) require infant abduction drills under EC.02.01.01 is that not everyone has to manage the security of those at-risk populations.
My take on this concern is that Joint Commission officials have tried to create standards and performance elements that can be applied as broadly [...]]]></description>
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