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Before you a-Q's me, take a look for yourself

Hospital Safety Insider, June 2, 2016

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As we await new content on the PEP (aka the newly-popular Joint Commission offering, the Physical Environment Portal), I want to draw your attention to an interesting development on another part of the Joint Commission's website: the ever-popular (such popularity and minimal polarity) Frequently Asked Questions page (now re-imagined as Standards Interpretations-really, check it out). And let me tell you, there is a ton of newly configured information to be found. If I were really attentive to such things (I usually am, but in this case I wasn't expecting such a sweeping re-imagination of this part of the TJC website), I would be able to tell you how much more information there is to be had, but I think I can safely say that, at least in terms of the numbers of entries, the amount has easily doubled in relation to the "old" FAQ page. Some of the material appears to be derived from information that had been previously shared through George Mills' Clarifications and Expectations column in Joint Commission Perspectives; other bits and pieces seem to be derived from information shared on the PEP. There also seems to be some stuff that hinges on the practical application of the now-expiring CMS categorical waivers (which I guess means there will be some updating of content in the not-too-distant future) and some other stuff that appears to have been developed specifically for this new page.

Read Steve's entire blog post here.

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