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Emergency session highlighted by tornado exercise
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August 1, 2008
Editor’s note: The following survey occurred May 28–30 at Graham Hospital in Canton, IL, a 124-bed acute and long-term care hospital.
May 28 seemed like a typical day at Graham Hospital in Canton, IL, until surveyors from The Joint Commission showed up in the lobby.
The accreditation officer charged with scanning the hospital’s Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) extranet site daily had been dispatched to give a presentation and was unable to do her morning check. She was summoned from the meeting, which was on hospital premises, to find “seven people in suits” waiting for her, says Michelle Florea, chair of the facility’s EC committee.
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