JCAHO pushes up deadline for e-SOC conversions
Emergency Management Alert, November 13, 2006
JCAHO pushes up deadline for e-SOC conversions
Worried about making the January deadline for conversion of paper-based SOCs to e-SOCs? Fear not, it's been pushed up to July 1, 2007, according to an article in the JCAHO's November Perspectives.
The change affects the required Part 2, Basic Building Information (BBI) and Part 4, Plan for Improvement (PFI). (Part 3 is not included electronically because it is an optional aid designed to comply with the requirement to conduct a life safety assessment, says JCAHO.)
It's part of the 2007 "Management of the Environment of Care" standards, which include a revised Standard EC.5.20, whose element of performance (EP) 2 says that a "current, organization-wide" e-SOC is to be prepared. Since August 2005, the JCAHO says, the e-SOC has been available to facilities to aid the changeover.
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