A Joint Commission note of note
Here’s a thought for you regarding emergency plan drills in 2009 and what The Joint Commission expects of you. Let’s look at EM.03.01.03, element of performance 16 (and I will quote it in its entirety):
The hospital modifies its emergency operations plan based on its evaluations of emergency response exercises and responses to actual emergencies.
So far, so good. But now we have this little dangling note:
Note: When modifications requiring substantive resources cannot be accomplished by the next emergency response exercise, interim measures are put into place until final modifications can be made.
Now I have to say that every time I see that lovely, little 15-letter phrase--"interim measures”--I start to get hives. I advise organizations to be succinct in identifying those interim measures.
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