Watch for door abuse by staff to avoid citations
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance, March 1, 2010
This is an excerpt from a member only article. To read the article in its entirety, please login or subscribe to Healthcare Life Safety Compliance.
There’s a strong argument that a building maintenance program will keep you ahead of problems from a troublesome Joint Commission life safety standard.
LS.02.01.30 was the sixth most-cited standard in the first half of 2009, with 36% of surveyed hospitals receiving a finding under it, according to the November 2009 Joint Commission Perspectives.
LS.02.01.30 requires hospitals to maintain building features to protect people from smoke and fire. The Joint Commission doesn’t specify which of the standard’s 25 elements of performance (EP) garnered the most citations. However, based on historical data and reports we’ve received from the field, the following EPs are known trouble spots:
This is an excerpt from a member only article. To read the article in its entirety, please login or subscribe to Healthcare Life Safety Compliance.
Related Products
-
The CMS Life Safety Survey: Know the Process and Stay Vigilant
During this 90-minute audio conference, Greeley Company consultants Brad Keyes and Jim Murphy will walk you and your staff...
-
Infection Control During Construction Manual, Third Edition
This updated resource by expert Wayne Hansen, PE, REA, CEM, along with contributions from 10 other experts, helps you...
-
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance
Created exclusively for healthcare facility managers, plant operations professionals, and directors of engineering, this...
-
Environment of Care Compliance Manual, Fourth Edition
This valuable resource not only updates the standards, it also offers tips and advice to stay compliant with new and...
-
Hospital Safety Center
Improve compliance with hospital safety standards from The Joint Commission, OSHA, and other regulators with this...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Differentiate between types of wound debridement
- Don’t forget the three checks in medication administration
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Maryland health system locked out of network by ransomware
- Know guidelines and subtle differences in code descriptions for laceration repairs
- What is the difference between an IPA and a medical group?
- Reimbursement for Facility and Professional Services in a Provider-Based Department by Gina M. Reese, Esq., RN
- Complications from immobility by body system
- E-mailed
-
- Average resident salary increases
- Q&A: Consent on having family members in the exam room
- Q&A: Coding for transplant complications
- Oxygen Cylinder Storage Requirements
- Order with no diagnosis code
- Know the medical gas cylinder storage requirements
- HIPAA Q&A: Transporting records to satellite clinic
- Fracture coding in ICD-10-CM requires greater specificity
- ECRI to take over critical online resource of evidence-based guidelines
- Diving into CMS expectations for having water management policies and procedures
- Searched