New Sentinel Event Alert focuses on emergency power failures
Accreditation Connection, September 11, 2006
The JCAHO last week issued a new Sentinel Event Alert encouraging hospitals to conduct risk assessments on their emergency power systems and potential generator failures.
The Alert (Issue 37, Preventing adverse events caused by emergency electrical power system failures), is the latest move by the JCAHO to strengthen its emergency management stance.
On July 1, the JCAHO released a revised emergency drill standard (EC.4.20), and on January 1, 2007, a new requirement goes into effect mandating four-hour generator tests every three years (EC.7.40).
The Alert offers a series of recommendations and observations to help facilities avoid emergency power outages.
Click here to read a JCAHO press release about the Alert.
The JCAHO also recently updated its sentinel event statistics. Click here to see them plus access other sentinel events data and resources.
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