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	<title>Mac&#039;s Safety Space &#187; Life Safety Code</title>
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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>Yet another safety standard hits The Joint Commission’s top 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a quick follow-up to our post last week about The Joint Commission’s top-cited standards for the first half of 2009, a more complete top 10 list now shows another life safety standard in the mix.
LS.02.01.30, which requires hospitals to maintain building features to protect people from smoke and fire, was the sixth most cited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even splintered, life safety standards top the citation list so far in 2009</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/even-splintered-life-safety-standards-top-the-citation-list-so-far-in-2009/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/be-wary-about-using-fire-drills-as-emergency-management-tests/</link>
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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>New development: CMS now allows six-year damper testing in hospitals</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/new-development-cms-now-allows-six-year-damper-testing-in-hospitals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Centers for Medicare &#38; Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a memo to its state survey agencies that now formally allows hospitals to use six-year testing frequencies for fire and smoke dampers.
What&#8217;s that mean for hospitals? A savings in time and money because crews will be able to see a one-third reduction for many damper testing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How leadership interacts with egress corridor storage</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/how-leadership-interacts-with-egress-corridor-storage/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/how-leadership-interacts-with-egress-corridor-storage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my experience, I&#8217;m not sure that I could tie leadership directly to the problem of wheeled items parked in egress corridors.
However, it would certainly not be a stretch for a citation under The Joint Commission’s leadership standards if the process failure was pervasive (and yes, I realize that pervasive is not a particularly definitive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exit signs in mechanical rooms? It depends …</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/exit-signs-in-mechanical-rooms-it-depends-%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/exit-signs-in-mechanical-rooms-it-depends-%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked recently whether exit signs are required in mechanical rooms, as a hospital had received a citation from a Joint Commission surveyor concerning this matter.
There is no specific requirement in the Life Safety Code for mechanical spaces to have exit signs. Moving on to The Joint Commission’s standards, LS.02.01.20, EP 31 indicates the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A deadly surgical fire results in CMS scrutiny</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/a-deadly-surgical-fire-results-in-cms-scrutiny/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/a-deadly-surgical-fire-results-in-cms-scrutiny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Safety Code]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The case of Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion, IL, shows just how important surgical fire prevention is for a hospital in terms of bad publicity and Medicare reimbursement.
As noted in my HealthLeaders Media story last month, on September 2 a flash fire occurred on a patient undergoing surgery at Heartland Regional. That patient later [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here’s a way to increase life safety awareness among nurses</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/09/here%e2%80%99s-a-way-to-increase-life-safety-awareness-among-nurses/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/09/here%e2%80%99s-a-way-to-increase-life-safety-awareness-among-nurses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite sessions at last week’s Life Safety Code Solutions for Hospitals seminar was a discussion about how to better engage nurses about life safety requirements.
The key, said Brad Keyes, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, is to bring the Life Safety Code into the realm of patient safety.
And that means, for example, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extra fire drill as part of The Joint Commission’s ILSMs</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/09/extra-fire-drill-as-part-of-the-joint-commission%e2%80%99s-ilsms/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/09/extra-fire-drill-as-part-of-the-joint-commission%e2%80%99s-ilsms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I fielded a question a little while back about using a fire drill as an interim life safety measure (ILSM) under Joint Commission standard LS.01.02.01 EP 11.
The actual verbiage from the pre-2009 standard was that each organization would conduct a minimum of two drills per shift per quarter, but it did not specifically identify those [...]]]></description>
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