How is The Joint Commission's 96-hour rule not a 96-hour rule?
Emergency Management Alert, January 29, 2008
Find out by reading this item from a special report published by our colleagues at Briefings on Hospital Safety.
In their review of The Joint Commission's (formerly JCAHO) emergency management standards, they say that no standard has generated more initial buzz than EC.4.12 EP 6, which states (and we paraphrase) that the emergency operation plan identifies the organization's capabilities and establishes response efforts when the organization cannot be supported by the local community for at least 96 hours in six critical areas.
But the EP, says BHS, actually doesn't require hospitals to stand on their own for 96 hours. Instead, it expects facilities to determine whether they can survive for that period, and if they can't, what steps they'll take in a catastrophe, says Steven MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Marblehead, MA. "You want to know what the breaking point is for your organization," MacArthur adds.
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