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Early this year, the NFPA promised to fast-track a new standard to help first responders, healthcare providers, facility managers, and others prepare for an active-shooter incident, and this week they delivered it. NFPA 3000, a Standard for an Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response (ASHER), is now available. |
| Newsletter Headlines The threat of an active shooter roaming the hallways is one of the biggest worries among safety professionals and C-suite executives in the healthcare industry. During a recent HCPro webinar, healthcare safety and security expert Steven Wilder shared his five key components for an active shooter plan.  The Department of Health and Human Services has given hospitals aggressive goals on HAI reduction. By 2020, the department wants CAUTI rates to be cut 50% in acute care hospitals, long-term care facilities, and ambulatory surgical centers. The Joint Commission recently published a list of the standards most often cited by its surveyors in 2017. A quick glance at the data shows that the list for office-based surgery practices looks a lot different than the one for hospitals.
HCPro Product Spotlight Eyewash stations continue to confuse and confound healthcare organizations. Not only can they pose infection control and safety issues for workers, they can be a point of contention between HCOs and surveyors, who often seem to work by different sets of rules. During this webinar, expert John R. Rosing will explain what regulators like CMS, TJC, and OSHA expect from eyewash stations.
Mac's Safety Space May 3, 2018
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