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Keyes Q&A: Door locks, grid ceilings, 10-second delay, business occupation classifications

Editor’s note: Each month, Brad Keyes, CHSP, owner of Keyes Life Safety Compliance, answers your questions about life safety compliance. Follow Keyes’ blog on life safety at www.keyeslifesafety.com for up to date information.   

Q: We are a psychiatric hospital with more than 100 beds. Our patient eating area has two exits. One has a storeroom lock with an electric strike and a badge reader to release the door. All that is needed is to push the door. The locking setup on the other door has just been added. The door has a mag lock and a storeroom function lock on it. To exit, you must badge the reader to release the mag lock and then turn the door handle to open the door. Does this constitute two motions to exit the room, and does this meet the Life Safety Code® (LSC) requirements?

Post-pandemic: Be prepared to explain how you're going to catch up

Be prepared to explain to surveyors how you will catch up with any inspection, testing, and maintenance (ITM) of non-critical systems that had been delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Update logs and records for any ITM done on critical systems, and make sure you can show that your Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) was activated before you opted for any allowed waivers on maintenance of non-critical systems.

Q&A: What hands-on security interventions are acceptable?

Last fall, as CMS and accrediting organizations increased their scrutiny of how hospitals address suicide risk, the question of whether security or police officers could be used as 1:1 monitors for high-risk patients became a recurring theme.

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Written by diversion prevention expert Kim New, this book is designed to help nursing, patient safety, and hospital security officials foster awareness of drug diversion, fight the “it can’t happen here” mentality, keep staff accountable, and monitor and audit the drugs moving through your facility to ensure they reach the right patient.

This book will help you:

• Learn the tell-tale signs of potential diversion
• Fight the “It can’t happen here” mentality
• Create awareness among staff using tools and checklists 
• Establish an effective and proactive drug diversion prevention plan
• Learn to recognize suspected diverters and mitigate problem areas in your hospital 
• Effectively confront and deal with diverters in your facility 
• Create audits that monitor drug distribution, from delivery to patient administration

Click here to access chapter previews.

And check out the book in store at https://hcmarketplace.com/drug-diversion-prevention 

Brian Ward
Editor
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