If you were unable to participate live in the 2017 Pioneers in Quality™: Creating your Proven Practices Submission webinar, fret not. A webinar replay and slide presentation is now available on The Joint Commission’s website.
In 2016, The Joint Commission revised the Life Safety (LS) and Environment of Care (EC) chapters for the Behavioral Health Care, Laboratory, Nursing Care Centers and Office-Based Surgery accreditation programs, based on the adoption of the 2012 editions of the National Fire Protection Association’s NFPA 101: Life Safety Code and NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code.
New FAQs have been posted to The Joint Commission’s website.
In a new recurring feature, Joint Commission Online will share tips from Joint Commission Resources’ Environment of Care News, which covers issues related to Environment of Care (EC), Emergency Management, and Life Safety (LS) standards. This inaugural installment focuses on Standard EC.02.04.03 for laboratories.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) inaugural Safe + Sound Week is underway, running June 12-18.