AAMI: What you gonna do?
By necessity, this is going to be somewhat of a hodgepodge of stuff as there are no new postings to The Joint Commission’s PEP site. Looks like we’ll have to wait for July to see what they have to say...
View ArticleBreaking news: PFIs take a flyer!
Well, I suppose there was a certain element of inevitability to this. First, the expulsion of the most global “FIs” in the Joint Commission arsenal—the Requirement for Improvement (RFI) and the...
View ArticleThis week in hell: What about the damn dampers?
We are certainly in the (very) early stages of the departure of The Joint Commission’s Plans for Improvement (PFI) process from our midst (Is it possible for a process to have abandonment issues? I...
View ArticleBlame it on Cain…
We’ll see how long this particular screed goes on when we get to the end… In my mind (okay, what’s left of it), the “marketing” of safety and the management of the physical environment is an important...
View ArticleMaybe these maps and legends have been misunderstood…
I don’t know about you folks, but The Joint Commission’s discontinuation of the PFI process has left me in a rather unsettled state. Heretofore, I think many of us (and I will include myself among that...
View ArticleDevilish details and the whirling dervishes of compliance
In the absence of any new content on The Joint Commission’s Physical Environment Portal (the PEP ain’t none too peppy of late), I guess we’re going to have to return to our old standby for the latest...
View ArticleIf accredited you wish to be, you must answer these questions three!
And other tales: If you thought the dervishes were whirling last week…you ain’t seen nothing! Hortal hears a chortle from the portal: The much-anticipated (you tell me how hyperbolic that...
View ArticleI wanna know: Have you ever seen the rain?
In our intermittently continuing series on the (final!) adoption of the 2012 Life Safety Code®, we turn to the one area about which I have still the most concerns—the magic land of NFPA 99. My primary...
View ArticleHistory shows again and again how standards (and EPs) point out the folly of...
It’s beginning to look like the proofreaders in Chicago must be enduring some late nights watching the Cubs! I don’t know about you folks, but I rely rather heavily on the regular missives from The...
View ArticleNow bring me some sticky findings—and bring them right here!
Another hodgepodge of stuff this week. I suppose with the holidays, I could be lazy and break these up into smaller chunks of bloggy goodness—maybe next week, but first some ponderings. I was penning...
View ArticleGathering gobs of Grinchiness
As the ol’ Physical Environment Portal remains barren of new goodies (maybe we will awake the morning of December 25 and find crisply wrapped interpretations under the tree—oh, what joy for every girl...
View ArticleRing out, solstice bells!
And so we turn again to our perusal of the bounty that is the December issue of Perspectives and that most splendid of pursuits, the Clarifications and Expectations column. With the pending changes to...
View ArticleDon’t ask, don’t tell, don’t tell, don’t get in trouble…
Hope everyone is having a good week and that the rather stormy weather impacting so many parts of the country has not created too much of a challenge for you and your organizations. This week is...
View ArticleWho can turn the world on with her smile?
As we find 2017 reapplying time’s onslaught against pop culture icons, once again there’s a small “c” cornucopia of stuff to cover, some perhaps useful, some most assuredly not (that would be item #1,...
View ArticleDoo doo doo, lookin’ out my back (fire) door…
Something old and something new(ish): old rant, new requirement. As we move ever onwards toward the close of our first year “under” the 2012 Life Safety Code® (talk about a brave new world), there was...
View ArticleIn season, out of season: What’s the difference?
…when you don’t know the reason… Some Joint Commission goodness for your regulatory pleasure! For those of you in the audience that make use of the online version of the Accreditation Manual, I would...
View ArticleDo you know the way to TIA?
Last week we touched upon the official adoption of a handful of the Tentative Interim Agreements (TIA) issued through NFPA as a function of the ongoing evolution of the 2012 edition of the Life Safety...
View ArticleI understand all destructive urges
It seems so perfect… A couple of somewhat disparate, but important, items for your consideration this week. I’m still somewhat fixated on how the survey process is going to manifest itself (regardless...
View ArticlePoint the finger (doesn’t matter which)
Or extend your hand? First up, as a general rule of thumb (which could be one of the pointed fingers represented above, unless you don’t think a thumb is a finger), when CMS identifies an...
View ArticleIf brevity is the soul of wit…
Hope everyone enjoyed a festive and (most importantly) safe Independence Day—with any luck, today (July 5) does not mark the end of summer (as some do say) so much as it marks the beginning of the end...
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