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These crosswalks allow facility professionals to understand how the accreditation standards align with the CMS Conditions of Participation (CoP’s) and Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and how these align with the adopted codes and standards. The crosswalks provide a comparison of the regulations applicable to most hospitals. This will allow facility professionals to better understand the standards and requirements and thus better prepare for survey evaluations within the physical environment.
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This tool is intended to help facilities professionals make good decisions about psychiatric unit toilet room renovations.
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Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines for Hospitals) contains all CMS requirements and survey guidance for a hospital alternate equipment maintenance (AEM) program. These risk assessment factors are generally not the same as the more common factors that hospitals have used in the past for utility system risk assessments.
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The Ventilation Management Plan (VMP) aims to create a comprehensive strategy to help health care facilities test and maintain all areas that require any type of ventilation management.
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Taking a good look at eyewash station requirements such as when and where to place eyewash stations in health care facilities.
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Classification schemas are designed to provide health care planners, designers, and operators with a common nomenclature, and to generate these benefits for health care facilities departments.
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The pre-disaster self-assessment consists of an assessment of critical infrastructure and an estimate of evacuation time.
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This video by American Society for Health Care Engineering members at Baptist Health in Conway, Ark., teaches health care facility managers to work with hospital staff to ensure a joyous – and safe – holiday season.
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In this video a clean storage room is closely examined. Can you identify the infection control, life safety, and environment of care issues?
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In this video a nurse's station is very active during a typical day. Can you identify the infection control, life safety, and environment of care issues?
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In this video an environmental services employee accesses his cart and proceeds to clean the patient corridor. Can you identify the infection control, life safety, and environment of care issues?
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In this video a nurse enters a patient's room to check on the patient during typical rounding. Can you identify the infection control, life safety, and environment of care issues?
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An effective preventive maintenance work flow should begin from the beginning of a construction project. ASHE’s “Construction to Maintenance Work Flow Tool” provides a diagram to help ensure that preventive maintenance operations are ingrained into the building of new facilities.