All Entries Tagged With: "communication"
After the Fort Hood shootings, Twitter proves useful for one hospital
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’s shootings at Fort Hood, TX, let one facility rev up its Twitter presence with useful updates and information. [more]
The challenges that tie healthcare facilities back to 9/11
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’t just the hijacked jets in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania — soon after, the nation was in the midst of anthrax attacks via the mail and there was also concern about potential smallpox bioterrorism.
Yet I re-read some of the articles I wrote at the time and was struck by [more]
New fall seminars about life safety and emergency management
We’re happy to announce two brand new professional development seminars that will focus on the hot topics of Life Safety Code compliance and emergency managment: [more]
Symposium coverage: A call to arms with emergency preparedness
From the Las Vegas desert I bring you great tidings of opportunity.
Joe Cappiello’s presentation this morning at the 3rd Annual Hospital Safety Center Symposium revolves around a discussion of how we in healthcare can better integrate, cooperate, and thus be able to “respondetate” more effectively with our community partners.
As part of a quick recap of the latest H1N1 developments (basically we’re in a very close monitoring situation), Joe touched on the topic [more]
Relaying patient information to third parties during an emergency
The possibility exists during community emergencies (or potential swine flu outbreaks, hmmmm) that your organization will need to pass along sensitive data about patients to outside entities.
EPs 11 and 12 under Joint Commission standard EM.02.02.01 require that [more]
How to start communicating with other hospitals under EM.02.02.01
When it comes to emergency communication under Joint Commission standard EM.02.02.01, an important piece to consider is how you communicate with other healthcare organizations in the contiguous geographic area.
So, the first step is to [more]
Why and when to communicate patient information with other sites
Someone asked me about my thoughts relative to Joint Commission emergency management standard EM.02.02.01, EP 11.
EP 11 establishes the expectation that in the event of a fairly widespread event (in terms of casualties and fatalities) that your emergency operations plan will have a process to communicate the names of patients to other healthcare organizations in the area. [more]
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh preps for patient moves
Hi folks, it’s Scott Wallask. Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh had a great idea as part of its preparation to move to a new facility in May. [more]
Early thoughts from NYC hospitals about the Hudson River plane crash
Hi everyone, it’s Scott Wallask logging in today. I just chatted with a couple of representatives of New York City hospitals about the plane that crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon and their facilities’ response to the incident.
Two important early points came up in our conversations: [more]
Emergency management scoring grace period ends January 1
Hi folks, it’s Scott Wallask checking in today. Steve Mac is on vacation this week (well deserved after I heard about the amount of miles he logged in the air in the last couple of months).
I wanted to remind you that a Joint Commission grace period–during which certain emergency management citations wouldn’t count against your hospital’s accreditation status–is ending as of January 1.
Because the new 2009 emergency management chapter renumbers the previous standards, double-check these provisions, all of which fell under the grace period in 2008:
- EM.01.01.01, EP 8-Documenting an inventory of assets and resources
- EM.02.02.03, EP 6-Monitoring quantities of assets and resources
- EM.02.01.01, EP 3-Meeting the 96-hour provision
- EM.02.02.01, EP 7-Communicating with vendors of essential supplies and services
- EM.02.02.03, EP 5-Sharing of assets and resources with healthcare facilities outside of the community
- EM.02.02.03, EP 9-Transporting patients, medications, equipment, and staff members to alternate care sites
- EM.02.02.05, EP 3-Coordinating security activities with outside agencies
- EM.02.02.05, EP 4-Managing hazardous materials and wastes
- EM.02.02.07, EP 7-Training staff members about their roles in emergency response
- EM.02.02.07, EP 8-Communicating with licensed independent practitioners about their roles in emergency response
- EM.02.02.09, EP 5-Determining alternative supplies of fuel for building operations or essential transport activities
- EM.02.02.11, EP 6-Managing mental health needs of patients
- EM.02.02.11, EP 7-Managing mortuary services
- EM.02.02.11, EP 8-Documenting and tracking clinical information
Emergency management will be a big part of our 3rd Annual Hospital Safety Center Symposium in May, so I encourage you to check out the full agenda.
