Emergency Readiness
Use this HVA tool to assist your multidisciplinary group in assessing and prioritizing exercises for potential hazards/risk.
This eBook features a collection of articles describing extreme weather events that have affected health care facilities across the country.
This supplement focuses on the roles of two leaders—the Facility Engineer and the Infection Preventionist—and how they can collaborate in all mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery stages.
Free PDF: A Back-to-Basics Approach to Infection Control and Emergency Management for Health Care Facilities
The Joint Commission (TJC) introduced changes to the Emergency Management (EM) standards which became effective on July 1, 2022.
Help prepare your facility for adverse weather-related events through this article and adverse weather checklist available to ASHE members.
A step-by-step guide for developing a comprehensive integrated fire protection and life safety inspection, testing and maintenance (ITM) program for health care facilities. This timely publication will support facilities managers ahead of CMS’s adoption of NFPA 101-2018 (or later), which will…
The intent of this document is to give hospital facility managers a broad overview of historical and current smoke control systems they are likely to encounter in typical hospital facilities.
The pre-disaster self-assessment consists of an assessment of critical infrastructure and an estimate of evacuation time.