Safety Newsletters

Listed below are recent articles for this department, grouped by publication. To access the full archives of a publication, click its related Archive link to the far right.

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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance

• Environment of Care: What to Expect in the Upcoming Year

  This excerpt comes from the HCPro book, Environment of Care Compliance Manual, Sixth Edition.

• Fire safety may trump ligature risk, but surveyors likely will want both

  TJC's newest engineering director, Herman A. McKenzie, MBA, CHSP, told hospital leadership that...

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Hospital Safety Center

• Clarification: 1135 waivers, temporary suspension of rules during a disaster

  Joint Commission–accredited hospitals and critical access hospitals must have a process in...

• Critical access hospitals held to higher suicide prevention standards

  In the December 2019 issue of Perspectives, The Joint Commission (TJC) announced new standards...

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Medical Environment Update

• The SPILLED drill

  Most laboratory spills can be managed using a standardized step-wise process known as the SPILLED...

• Review your antibiotic stewardship program against latest CoP revisions

  Hospital antibiotic stewardship programs will become a Condition of Participation (CoP) requirement...