Apparently, there is. (Who knew?) Going back once again to devil in the details of Joint Commission surveys during the first six months of 2023,  it was noted that among the highest risk findings were those relating to eyewash stations. It would seem that the findings in this regard tended to relate to:

We will be conducting planned service maintenance for the Accreditation & Quality Compliance Center on Saturday, December 16, 2023, beginning at 7:00 a.m. ET. The maintenance should not exceed 3 hours. Please be advised that the Accreditation & Quality Compliance Center may be unavailable during this time.

This is Part Two of our interview with Jeffrey Rakover, MPP, a director of innovation and design at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and Marina Renton, MPhil, a senior research associate on the IHI innovation and design team. For the past five months, the two of them have been researching how generative artificial intelligence can impact quality improvement work. Today, they’ll speak more about the regulations currently in place, along with some of the risks and considerations for using AI in healthcare.  

Reducing physical risks for self-harm remains a key part of meeting CMS requirements to provide patient care in a safe setting, but don’t focus everything on ligature risk.

Facilities might start seeing more CMS surveys soon as the agency lowers the initial level of certification for its own Life Safety Code® (LSC) surveyor candidates.

I recently completed a seven-month stint as an interim laboratory manager. One of my leaders asked me if the time in that role had altered my perspective about lab safety.