Newsletter Headlines Currently, the majority of U.S. hospitals and outpatient facilities do not use hand hygiene monitoring technology. Perhaps the increased surveyor focus on hand hygiene compliance and more success stories like the one experienced at Lutheran Medical Center in Colorado will encourage others to pony up.  The 10 most-cited standards by The Joint Commission in 2017 were in or linked to the Environment of Care and Life Safety chapters. Those requirements have gone through major revisions in the wake of the adoption of the 2012 NFPA codes, and CMS wants accrediting organizations to be tougher on those standards. A timely, recent report examined how the American healthcare system has fared while responding to emergencies both large and small. The authors concluded that the bigger the emergency, the less prepared healthcare facilities are for handling the crush of patients that come through their doors.
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Mac's Safety Space May 10, 2018
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