Crisis management starts at home but doesn't end there
Briefings on Infection Control, September 1, 2008
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The Joint Commission’s surveyors may be tough, but they’re nothing compared with a natural disaster.
So learned Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans. When Joint Commission surveyors reviewed Ochsner’s emergency plan in July 2005, they found it lacking and gave the facility a requirement for improvement (RFI). One month later, in August 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit, and that same plan was tested.
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