Analyzing the Hospital Life Safety Survey, Third Edition
Accreditation Insider, December 19, 2017
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Your facility is explored from top to bottom for life safety compliance when life safety surveyors arrive on-site. Beat them to the punch with assistance from Analyzing the Hospital Life Safety Survey, Third Edition by doing your own in-depth analysis of your organization.
Formerly of The Joint Commission, current HFAP life safety surveyor and independent consultant Brad Keyes, CHSP, provides a practical, strategic approach to the life safety survey process. He walks you through a room-by-room, floor-by-floor analysis of the life safety measures you must have in place to avoid costly citations. The book simplifies Joint Commission standards and CMS requirements and focuses on ways to pass your next life safety survey.
This book will provide readers with:
- A floor-by-floor analysis to help all staff better prepare for a life safety survey
- Expert analysis by a life safety expert with experience in multiple accrediting organizations as well as CMS
- Photos illustrating where citations can happen to help you better understand potential trouble spots during survey
- Tools and tips for more efficient survey preparation
- This update will address the changes made to the Life Safety chapter after the adoption of the 2012 Life Safety Code®.
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