Managing Life Safety to Meet JCAHO Expectations

The JCAHO has placed a greater emphasis on the life safety condition of buildings housing health care services that are accredited. Facility managers need to establish a process designed to continually measure and evaluate the level of compliance with the requirements of the Life Safety Code® in each such building.

Compliance with the Code is also a mandatory component of the Medicare Conditions of Participation. Continual compliance must be maintained to satisfy both JCAHO and CMS expectations.

 

Learning Outcomes

  • Define the relationship between the JCAHO and CMS
  • Identify the role life safety management plays in the JCAHO survey process
  • Explain how to have a foundation for designing a program to assure continual compliance
  • Determine how to have a foundation for preparing and maintaining documents to support the program.
  • Interpret the presenters summary of an unannounced JCAHO survey that included an engineering survey of the life safety compliance level of a hospital building.

Who Should Purchase this CD?

  • Facility Managers
  • Facility Engineers
  • Construction Managers
  • Industrial Hygienists
  • Infection Control Managers
  • Architects
  • Designers

Presenters and Panelists

Ode Keil
President,
Ode Keil Consulting Group

Mr. Keil is internationally recognized as an expert resource and teacher in the areas described by the JCAHO's PTSM and EC standards.

Ode Richard Keil, MS, MBA, CCE is the Director of Quality Management and Performance Improvement for Provena Mercy Center in Aurora Illinois. He is also the President of The Ode Keil Consulting Group. Inc. Mr. Keil manages several departments of Provena Mercy Center including Quality and Risk Management, Patient Safety, Medical Staff Affairs, Infection Control, and the Care Management group. He consults with hospitals across the country on JCHAO and regulatory compliance issues.

His previous work experience includes:

Eight years as Vice President of Safety Management Services, Inc., a consulting firm specilizing in environment of care issues; Thirteen years as Director of Plant and Technology Management for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. During his tenure with the Joint Commission, he developed the Plant Technology and Safety Management (PTSM) and Management of the Environment of Care (EC) Standards. Mr. Keil also designed the current survey and accreditation process associated with these standards. Six years managing biomedical equipment management programs for both hospitals and independent service companies.

Mr. Keil is a well-known expert in the areas addressed by the JCAHO standards for managing the environment of care. He has taught survey process and standards to Joint Commission surveyors and is internationally recognized as an expert resource and teacher in the areas described by the PTSM and EC standards. Hehas also served on committees and boards of many important healthcare organizations including AAMI, NFPA and ASHE, and has served as a member of many government panels and task forces at the state and national level.

Tom Walsh
Director of Facilities
Provena Mercy Center
Chicago, IL

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