Environment of Care: Essentials for Health Care, 2012 Edition

Author: Joint Commission Resources

A must-have for facility managers, 2012 Environment of Care Essentials for Health Care covers the accreditation process including compliance with NFPA 101®: Life Safety Code®.

Get the most up-to-date Environment of Care (EC), Emergency Management (EM), and Life Safety (LS) standards and survey information for the accreditation process -- all in one convenient spiralbound volume. This vital information is the heart of the must-have 2012 Environment of Care Essentials for Health Care.

Environment of Care Essentials for Health Care features:

• Information on how to understand the EC, EM, and LS chapters
• Explanations of how EC, EM, and LS will be surveyed and details on the scoring process
• Easy-to-use matrixes of the EC, EM, and LS standards that ambulatory care, behavioral health care, critical access hospital, hospital, laboratory, long term care, Medicare/Medicaid Certification-based long term care, office-based surgery practices, and home care organizations have in common
• A chapter on helpful standards information for EC professionals regarding storage, CMS and Joint Commission compliance for medical equipment and utility system maintenance, recent Sentinel Event Alerts applicable to EC, as well as EC tracers and equivalencies

Includes an Environment of Care Checklist CD-ROM and an electronic version of the popular EC, EM, and LS Standards Matrixes.

The 2012 Environment of Care Essentials for Health Care is an invaluable tool for anyone responsible for accreditation, including managers in charge of multiple facilities. (Spiralbound, pp. 181, 2012)