May 6-7, 2010-The 4th Annual Hospital Safety Center Symposium

Session recordings from The 4th Annual Hospital Safety Center Symposium

This live event was originally recorded on May 6-7, 2010, in Las Vegas, NV. You can access recordings of these sessions on-demand through July 7, 2010, at which point they will no longer be available. You are entitled to unlimited access until that date.

Joint Commission scrutiny of the physical environment is at an all-time high; four of the top 10 most-cited standards stem from life safety issues.

This compliance-focused program features a talented roster of speakers with expertise in your everyday challenges, including Life Safety Code®, safety risk assessments, disaster training, workplace violence prevention, process improvement, and CMS interpretation. You'll walk away from this program with practical compliance strategies and invaluable insight into The Joint Commission's three major elements of physical environment compliance: life safety, environment of care, and emergency management.

Learning objectives

Listen to these recordings, and you'll be able to:

• Recognize the focal points of CMS Life Safety Code® scrutiny and address potential violations
• Apply interim life safety measures to a variety of life safety deficiencies
• Identify where your facility-based processes could be vulnerable and take steps to tighten them
• Implement new ideas to educate staff members and improve hospital safety programs
• Explain Joint Commission scoring nuances and how they relate to citations
• Develop strategies to address environment of care concerns, such as workplace violence and ties to infection control
• See new strategies to develop recovery steps and test emergency operations plans

Who Should Listen?

Facility directors, safety committee members, emergency management coordinators, directors of engineering, directors of plant operations, hospital fire marshals, survey prep coordinators, security directors

Agenda

Session 1: Life Safety - Anatomy of a CMS inspection
Henry Kowalenko
Learn what CMS inspectors expect from facilities with life safety compliance, which items will be covered during a survey, how the Life Safety Code® interacts with the Conditions of Participation, and strategies to better prepare before CMS shows up at your door - all from a state department of health supervisor whose agency is contracted by CMS to conduct Life Safety Code® inspections at hospitals.

Session 2: Emergency Management -Business recovery strategies
Joseph Cappiello
Of The Joint Commission's four phases of emergency management, recovery efforts often receive short attention during planning and drills. Take away guidance about practical recovery steps following a disaster and the best ways to test these methods as part of your hospital's overall emergency operations plan.

Session 3: Life Safety - How to apply interim life safety measures to construction and nonconstruction deficiencies
Brad Keyes
Many safety professionals still associate interim life safety measures (ILSM) with construction, but it is often nonconstruction-related deficiencies that create the biggest ILSM pitfalls. Avoid problems and confusion by discovering how to best apply ILSMs through a series of scenarios designed to show the nuances of life safety deficiencies - and learn when ILSMs may not be necessary at all.

Session 4: Environment of Care - Performance improvement strategies for safety officers and facility managers
Ken Rohde
Safety-related adverse events not only affect operations on the facility management side, but they can also have consequences for overall patient care. Find out how to use performance improvement strategies to tackle adverse events, and learn how tools such as root-cause analyses and tabletop exercises can help improve your physical environment processes across the board.

Session 5: Environment of care - Tying environment of care into infection control
Steven MacArthur
Environment of care and infection control intersect in many areas of the hospital, such as construction activities, storage of supplies, and medical equipment disinfection. Learn what connections The Joint Commission's standards require between the two disciplines, how surveyors will examine the relationship, and ways to prevent problems - with an emphasis on strategies from the safety officer's point of view.

Session 6: Emergency management - Tips for escalating drill scenarios
Joseph Cappiello
If your emergency management tests don't account for an escalating sequence of events that challenge participants and resources, you risk not only being ill-prepared for a community disaster, but could also run afoul of Joint Commission requirements. Take home practical ideas you can use to push the envelope of your own emergency exercises, straight from a former Joint Commission official.

Session 7: Life safety - "Mis-scored" citations, why they occur, and how to clarify them
Brad Keyes
You've heard about, or perhaps even personally experienced, this situation: A Joint Commission finding that doesn't reflect the true requirements or scoring of a given standard. Understand how these problems occur and gain insight into The Joint Commission's scoring approach, which can help your facility fend off an erroneous citation.

Session 8: Environment of care - How to better prepare your emergency department for workplace violence and pandemic surges through security efforts
Fredrick Roll
With an ever-changing cast of occupants, high tensions, and life-and-death situations, it's likely that no location in your hospital is more prone to security-related incidents than the emergency department. Find out how security officers can effectively respond to potential violence in the emergency department, and review security approaches for dealing with patient surges during disasters, pandemics, and routine overcrowding. You'll also learn how healthcare reform will impact security efforts in this critical area.

Meet the Speakers

Joseph Capiello, BSN, MA (Emergency management expert). Cappiello is chair of Cappiello & Associates, and the former vice president for accreditation field operations at The Joint Commission, where he spent 10 years directing key internal functions, as well as serving as a surveyor.

Brad Keyes, CHSP (Life safety expert). Keyes is a life safety consultant at The Greeley Company. He is a former life safety specialist for The Joint Commission. His expertise lies in the management of the environment of care, development of leadership effectiveness, and efficiency in work processes.

Kenneth R. Rohde (Process improvement expert). Rohde is a senior consultant at The Greeley Company, and specializes in the areas of error reduction strategies, root cause analysis, improving performance through process simplification, apparent cause analysis, and failure modes and effects analysis.

Henry Kowalenko (CMS life safety expert). Kowalenko possesses a solid knowledge base in residential, commercial, industrial, and educational facilities. He has worked closely with providers, healthcare architects, and other authorities having jurisdiction regarding issues of compliance with state licensure and the Life Safety Code®.

Fredrick Roll , MA, CPP , CHPA-Fellow (Security expert). Roll is president of Healthcare Security Consultants, Inc., and Roll Enterprises, Inc., He has managed and been involved in security operations and consultation in various healthcare setting for more than 29 years.

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