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Mac’s Safety Space: Does closing rooms due to environmental conditions always make the best sense?

Hospital Safety Insider, January 28, 2016

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Every once in a while, someone asks me a question about why (or as is more the case here, "how") a certain approach or response "becomes" the standard of practice, etc. For instance, a lot of times, I will find Interim Life Safety Measures policies that always seem to drive implementation, almost in direct opposition to the level of risk engendered by the deficiency (one caveat: I think you really have to tend towards over-implementing for construction and renovation activities, if only because you can have so little actual control over contractor behaviors. You need think only of the number of truly successful above the ceiling work permit processes-almost makes Powerball sound like a sure thing, but I digress). Anyways, to bring this back to today's topic, I am reasonably certain (I was going to say "know," but since I haven't been everywhere) that many, many folks (very close to all) have intermittent struggles with the management of environmental conditions in surgical procedure areas. If we can use the number and type of Joint Commission findings as any indicator, the struggles continue.

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