The Joint Commission’s emergency management standards are changing faster than many facilities can keep track of.
Remember EC.4.10?
Expanded.
EC.4.10 has split into eight new standards, EC.4.11–EC.4.18—creating the “six critical areas” of emergency management. Another key component: Now your hospital must be able to determine whether it could survive on its own without community support for up to 96 hours during a disaster. With expanded standards comes—you guessed it—even more elements of performance.
Remember EC.4.20?
Revised.
The new EC.4.20 says that at least one exercise should be escalated to evaluate how effectively the hospital functions when it can’t be supported by the community.
These are just a few of the very many changes to the emergency management standards of The Joint Commission’s revised environment of care chapter, which went into effect January 1 of this year. HCPro covers the revised standards in a new, special update of Environment of Care: A Compliance Guide to The Joint Commission’s Management Plans, Third Edition.
Because today is not the time to update your EC program. That day was yesterday.
Joint Commission surveyors will scrutinize your facility’s disaster plans, hazard communication practices and policies, hazard vulnerability analyses, drill methods, and more as a result of the revised emergency management standards.
More than ever, you need a trusted guide that provides up-to-date EC information, clues you in to proposed changes for 2009, and helps prepare you and your staff for unannounced surveys. The newest edition of The Environment of Care does all that and more!
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Your guide to continuous survey readiness—with the new, updated edition of The Environment of Care: A Compliance Guide to the Joint Commission’s Management Plans, Third Edition
Its author is safety officer and Joint Commission expert Thomas J. Huser. Huser has taken this premier reference to the EC standards and updated the emergency management information, standard by standard. This new version is packed with the precise, fully updated information you saw in the previous edition—but with Huser’s insider advice on how best to make your facility disaster-ready and keep you ready for a Joint Commission survey.
This binder and CD-ROM gives you everything you need to comply, including step-by-step instructions and field-tested tools. There’s also a special section on pitfalls to avoid.
EC compliance is all about the details.
The previous edition of The Environment of Care: A Compliance Guide to the Joint Commission’s Management Plans, Third Edition, offered more than 40 sample policies and procedures you saw in the previous edition, like the
The new edition gives you such new great features as
- updated Web resources for disaster preparedness
- an 2007/2008 emergency management crosswalk
- a detailed list of the new standards
- expert advice on what surveyors will look for in the new standard
add to updated tools, tips, and forms from the previous book, including
- disaster cart inventory checklist
- sample mutual aid agreement
- sample disaster recovery plan
- hazard vulnerability analysis
- emergency management drill evaluation form
All are available on the CD-ROM.
Coverage of the entire Environment of Care
But the environment of care is more than just emergency management. The Environment of Care: A Compliance Guide to The Joint Commission's Managment Plans, Third Edition covers each of the Joint Commission’s seven EC plans—safety, security, hazardous materials and wastes, emergency management, fire prevention, medical equipment, and utilities management.
The ideal reference guide
In addition to providing easy-to-understand explanations in plain English, this book offers step-by-step compliance plans, tips, and warnings. And since great content demands great packing, the The Environment of Care: A Compliance Guide to The Joint Commission's Managment Plans, Third Edition is in a sturdy waterproof binder with pages that are easily removed—so you can ceate your own smaller packet to carry around during a survey. And the accompanying CD-ROM contains many of the forms and policies featured in the book, allowing you to customize them electronically.
About the Author
Thomas J. Huser, MS, CHSP, is a safety coordinator for a healthcare system in Indianapolis. He’s a health and safety professional with more than 21 years of healthcare and public safety experience. Huser’s specific responsibilities include hazardous materials and emergency preparedness. Huser has published over 13 articles in the Journal of Healthcare Security on topics including: disaster drill planning, emergency decontamination, the Incident Command System, and the Hazard Communication Program.
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