TJC tweaks EC and LS standards, adds specifics to some requirements

Review your Environment of Care (EC) and Life Safety (LS) policies and procedures now that The Joint Commission has issued another round of revisions, prepublished September 21 with an effective date of January 1, 2023.

IHI is offering two ways for healthcare organizations to participate in its Pursuing Equity initiative.

Researchers are increasingly finding that doctors can transmit prejudice under the guise of objective descriptions.

As the Fall colors start to manifest itself and the scary folk prepare for their time in the moonlight, it’s also a good time to remind folks about Fire Prevention Week (October 9 -15).

Nothing like the last month of summer to clean out the files in the arena of life safety compliance and healthcare security.

Without further ado, here’s a compilation of some news and advice for practitioners in the space as we close out another summer and look forward to the final quarter of 2022.

Before COVID-19, deaths from antimicrobial resistance were headed in the right direction, decreasing by nearly 30% in hospitals between 2012 and 2017. But in 2020, resistant hospital-onset infections and deaths both increased by 15% compared to 2019.

This month, we continue our review of The Joint Commission’s new and revised workplace violence (WPV) prevention requirements effective January 1, 2022. The Joint Commission issued three new elements of performance (EP) to existing standards and two revised EPs.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is focusing on healthcare safety with some of its upcoming standards, according to OSHA officials at a safety conference in late September.

Credentialing teams face the prospect of more and more problematic physicians applying for jobs. How can these teams do their part to ensure an acceptable level of care that ultimately protects patients?