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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Risk Management & Safety > The Environment of Care: A Compliance Guide to the JCAHO's Management Plans

The Environment of Care: A Compliance Guide to the JCAHO's Management Plans, 3rd Edition 
Thomas J. Huser, MS, CHSP
 

Loose-leaf Binder + bonus CD-ROM
ISBN 1578398827
978-1578398829
HCPro Inc.
November 2006
Price: $229.00
(click below for the best available price for this loose-leaf manual and CD set)

 

This loose-leaf manual and CD-ROM set provide you with a process to be sure your EC plans meet the JCAHO survey requirements.

This fully revised compliance guide now also contains more than 40 sample policies and procedures to help you develop or refine your own EC plan. All policies can be easily amended, customized, shared and printed via the companion CD-ROM.

For each of the JCAHO's seven current EC plans - Safety, Security, Hazardous Materials and Wastes, Emergency Management (formerly Emergency Preparedness), Fire Prevention, Medical Equipment, and Utilities Management - you get step-by-step compliance plans, tips, and warnings of potential pitfalls in capsule descriptions of step-by-step breakdown of what you need to know:

  • Details of what has changed and what might be changing

  • What the requirement says

  • What the requirement means

  • What you need to do to comply

  • Sample management plans to assist you in creating or refining your own

  • Easy-to-understand breakdowns of code requirements explanations in plain English

  • Step-by-step compliance plans, tips, and warnings

Easy-to-implement strategies, tools, and compliance forms are all included in this resource. Published together in a loose-leaf binder and on a companion CD-ROM, these materials - including a new feature of customizable management plans for each function of the EC - are ready for you to customize and distribute to your staff. Instead of pondering the JCAHO's complicated regulatory language, you have instant access to the precise details of what the surveyors are looking for during their inspections.

With this resource, you also get the reasons behind the rules to help you go beyond what to do and how to do it to understanding why these standards are in place. Your guide to continuous survey readiness is packed with the precise, fully updated information you need to respond to recent changes in the JCAHO survey requirements. In addition, a new focus on changes in survey emphasis helps you keep your environment of care in a constant state of inspection readiness. This resource kit will also give you important information on:

  • Critical changes to emergency management requirements, including word-for word-revisions of EC.4.2.0

  • News and trends of the past year and how they affected all JCAHO plans, from smoking policies to the new crackdown on EC1.10 mandating response to safety risks

  • What to expect when the revisions to EC 7.40 for testing of emergency power systems take effect in 2007

  • OSHA regulations for TB mask-fitting

  • Updates of the NFPA Life Safety Code requirements for the EC JCAHO's new emphasis on preventative maintenance reportage

  • JCAHO's update to Appropriate Environment Standards

  • How tracer surveys can potentially set you up to fail an inspection

  • The new definitions for Statement of Conditions

  • Periodic Performance Review

  • Protecting yourself against JCAHO imposters

  • Identification and handling of infectious waste

  • Guidelines for receipt, storage, use, and disposal of radioactive materials

  • Emergency drills and mass casualty incidents

  • Changes in requirements for documentation of safety and performance testing

  • The new importance of appropriate signage in stairwells

  • Consequences of failure to conduct and document the annual review

  • and much more

The Environment of Care presents everything you need to comply. It also fully explains:

  • How both the NFPA and OSHA requirements have become part of the JCAHO requirements

  • Why interdepartmental cooperation is essential to success

  • Why documentation is such a critical area

  • The emerging trend toward enforcement of "voluntary" requirements

  • Answers to all your questions

The JCAHO's move to unannounced surveys has raised the specter of sanctions for noncompliance. Your program has to work every day, not just on inspection day. Save time and effort with the sample policies and procedures you'll find in The Environment of Care Manual: A Compliance Guide to the JCAHO's Management Plans, Second Edition. More than 40 sample policies and procedures to help your staff comply with recent and pending revisions to standards affecting:

  • EC security

  • infection control

  • survey preparation

  • disaster preparedness

  • utilities management

  • and many more areas

Thomas J. Huser, MS, CHSP, brings more than 20 years of experience to bear on his position as safety writer, environment-of-care specialist, and consultant for The Greeley Company, the consulting division of HCPro. A former hospital safety manager, certified NFPA fire instructor, and hazardous materials specialist, Huser brings both administrative and real-world knowledge to his work in healthcare safety. An advisor to OSHA's Compliance Insider for Healthcare Facilities, Huser writes for the Journal of Healthcare Security. When he is not writing, he is speaking at such gatherings as the NFPA World Fire and Safety Conference, and the National Earthquake Conference.

Loose-leaf Binder + bonus CD-ROM
ISBN 1578398827
978-1578398829
HCPro Inc.
November 2006
Price: $229.00
(click below for the best available price for this loose-leaf manual and CD set)

 

This loose-leaf manual and CD-ROM set provide you with a process to be sure your EC plans meet the JCAHO survey requirements.

With more than 17 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. As an acknowledged industry authority in healthcare regulation and compliance, HCPro focuses on providing its clients assistance and expertise in the areas of accreditation, medical staff affairs, credentialing, privileging, medical record management, regulatory compliance, nursing, quality/patient safety, infection control, and workplace safety.

(information provided by the publisher)

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