Safety Newsletters

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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance

• Lessons from pandemics past

  The test of our ability to keep the healthcare system running in the face of the coronavirus...

• Massachusetts weighs hospital wayfinding regulation

  Law would mandate improved signage and security at hospital entrance  

• CMS updates its surveyors' manual for the first time in over a year

  CMS is revising its State Operations Manual (SOM) for hospitals in one of the first significant...

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Hospital Safety Center

• Accrediting organizations suspend most survey activities to focus on COVID-19

   All four hospital AOs have suspending most or all survey activities during the national...

• Ask the expert: You may need extra LED fixtures

  Q: NFPA 101-2012 (Life Safety Code®), section 7.8.1.4 states: “Required illumination...

• Massachusetts law could change signage and security at hospital entrance

  Law would mandate improved signage and security at hospital entrance  

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Medical Environment Update

• My PPE is backordered--now what? COVID-19 alternate safe practices

  Some of the items that have become very hard to get include personal protective equipment (PPE...

• Talking to patients about cannabis

  Do providers need to know if their patients use cannabis? Yes. Do patients always tell their...

• Why you need to know if a patient uses cannabis

  As a provider, you need to know how to have an open and honest discussion with patients about their...