Mac’s Safety Space: As plain as the nose on your emergency response plan
Hospital Safety Insider, July 7, 2016
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Periodically, the whole concept of adopting plain language codes for emergency response plan activities/activations percolates to the top of somebody's to-do list (I'd much rather embrace the concept of the to-don't list, but that's a discussion for another day). There was a little bit of that (more by inference than anything else) in the CMS follow-up report to the hospital response to Superstorm Sandy. Jeez Louise, that seems like eons ago...
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