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	<title>Mac&#039;s Safety Space &#187; Joint Commission</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>Yet another safety standard hits The Joint Commission’s top 10</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/yet-another-safety-standard-hits-the-joint-commission%e2%80%99s-top-10/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/yet-another-safety-standard-hits-the-joint-commission%e2%80%99s-top-10/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
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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>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>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/even-splintered-life-safety-standards-top-the-citation-list-so-far-in-2009/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/be-wary-about-using-fire-drills-as-emergency-management-tests/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/new-development-cms-now-allows-six-year-damper-testing-in-hospitals/#comments</comments>
		<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>Joint Commission offers guidance, but no mandates, for patient-owned items</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/joint-commission-offers-guidance-but-no-mandates-for-patient-owned-items/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/joint-commission-offers-guidance-but-no-mandates-for-patient-owned-items/#comments</comments>
		<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>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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