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	<title>Mac's Safety Space</title>
	
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		<title>After the Fort Hood shootings, Twitter proves useful for one hospital</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/after-the-fort-hood-shootings-twitter-proves-useful-for-one-hospital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many people, social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are frequently used to quote movie lines or discuss whether they had coffee or hair of the dog with their Corn Flakes. But from a professional standpoint, The Joint Commission is encouraging the use of social sites for emergency management purposes.
Thursday&#8217;s shootings at Fort Hood, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even splintered, life safety standards top the citation list so far in 2009</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/even-splintered-life-safety-standards-top-the-citation-list-so-far-in-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/?p=1966</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When The Joint Commission announced a while back that the old EC.5.20 was the top cited standard in hospitals in 2008, there some observers (including me) who thought that statistic would be hard to repeat. After all, it was reasoned, the all-encompassing EC.5.20 had splintered into various new life safety standards in 2009, none of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be wary about using fire drills as emergency management tests</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/be-wary-about-using-fire-drills-as-emergency-management-tests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[drills]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/?p=1962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked whether fire drills could count towards The Joint Commission’s requirements for emergency management tests under EM.03.01.03.
I suppose if you evaluated a fire drill to the extent called for under EM.03.01.03, including monitoring of the key response capabilities, you might &#8212; and I can not emphasize enough “might” &#8212; be able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New development: CMS now allows six-year damper testing in hospitals</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/11/new-development-cms-now-allows-six-year-damper-testing-in-hospitals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/?p=1958</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Centers for Medicare &#38; Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a memo to its state survey agencies that now formally allows hospitals to use six-year testing frequencies for fire and smoke dampers.
What&#8217;s that mean for hospitals? A savings in time and money because crews will be able to see a one-third reduction for many damper testing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctor stabbed: When something goes wrong, security feels the heat</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/doctor-stabbed-when-something-goes-wrong-security-feels-the-heat/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/doctor-stabbed-when-something-goes-wrong-security-feels-the-heat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/?p=1953</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston finds itself in the unenviable position of trying to deal with a pair of high-profile security incidents within the past nine days. Last week, a released sex offender allegedly attacked a female employee, following her into a restroom in the main hospital, banging her head into the floor, and attempting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OSHA raises the stakes in the N95 respirator debate</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/osha-raises-the-stakes-in-the-n95-respirator-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[H1N1 swine flu]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/?p=1949</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The October 20 edition of our free sister e-newsletter, OSHA Healthcare Connection, has generated a fair amount of what I like to think of as consternation.
At this point, I think most folks are familiar with the CDC coming down squarely on the side of N95 respirators versus surgical masks for use as personal protective equipment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Try a free sample of our customizable paper patients</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/try-a-free-sample-of-our-customizable-paper-patients/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/try-a-free-sample-of-our-customizable-paper-patients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergency management]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/?p=1945</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After months of development, we’re happy to announce our new Emergency Preparedness Solutions series, which we think you’ll like.
The highlight for me, because it’s something I’ve wanted to see us publish for a long time, is a collection of 80 paper patients that are customizable to your hospital’s drill or triage efforts.
These paper patients were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further thoughts on patient-owned equipment in the hospital</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/further-thoughts-on-patient-owned-equipment-in-the-hospital/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/further-thoughts-on-patient-owned-equipment-in-the-hospital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/?p=1942</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick follow-up to a post I made last week about patient-owned equipment coming into the hospital:
One thing you might want to consider relative to these types of devices is whether (primarily as a customer satisfaction strategy) you&#8217;d want to provide certain devices &#8212; for example hair dryers &#8212; as part of the room furnishings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In halting mandatory flu shots, NY had to step back</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/in-halting-mandatory-flu-shots-ny-had-to-step-back/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/in-halting-mandatory-flu-shots-ny-had-to-step-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wallask</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CDC/infection control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[H1N1 swine flu]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/?p=1938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For now, the war drums in New York state can stop beating. In an about-face, New York Governor David Paterson announced yesterday that healthcare workers in the state will no longer be required to receive seasonal or H1N1 flu vaccinations as a condition of employment.
Let&#8217;s be blunt: It&#8217;s hard to win a battle against nurses. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joint Commission offers guidance, but no mandates, for patient-owned items</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/joint-commission-offers-guidance-but-no-mandates-for-patient-owned-items/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/2009/10/joint-commission-offers-guidance-but-no-mandates-for-patient-owned-items/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve MacArthur</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.hcpro.com/hospitalsafety/?p=1931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you deal with patient-owned equipment, such as hair dryers, coming into the hospital.
The Joint Commission published an FAQ on this topic last year, and this is one of those instances in which, in opening the risk assessment door, the FAQ provides just enough semi-specific information to confuse matters.
My first piece of advice in [...]]]></description>
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