Mac’s Safety Space: Maybe these maps and legends have been misunderstood
Hospital Safety Insider, August 4, 2016
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I don't know about you folks, but The Joint Commission's discontinuation of the PFI process has left me in a rather unsettled state. Heretofore, I think many of us (and I will include myself among that number) relied on TJC to provide some level of illumination into the inner workings of compliance as a function of what CMS is requiring. As I think I noted earlier, I was fully cognizant that CMS has been no particular fan of the PFI process as a means of ensuring compliance with the Life Safety Code(r), but (presumably) there was always a tacit understanding-falling somewhat short of acceptance-that the PFI process wasn't causing enough of a ripple in the fabric of compliance to warrant any direct intervention.
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