Mac's Safety Space: You may need to reset your compliance calendar
Hospital Safety Insider, November 6, 2014
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As the trees turn over their colors, it (sometimes) gives me time to go back over stuff we’ve covered out here in the blogosphere, with the intent of trying to capture some things of note that I think are worth mentioning, even if they are not quite “hot off the presses.”
One of the interesting shifts is the subtle redefining of several of the compliance time frames invoked throughout the standards and performance elements. Not all of the definitions changed, but in the interest of full disclosure, I think we should include the lot of them.
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