Put Your Plan into Action
Our February Focus On column references an emergency exercise at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, NY. In the exercise, doctors, biomeds, and other hospital staff ran through all
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Emergency Preparation
Arthur R. Bartosch, BS, CBET On a crisp autumn day last October, Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, NY, was bracing for a full-blown pandemic influenza catastrophe. Physicians and nurses scrambled to ready beds, while biomeds rushed to set up enough portable blood pressure machines and ventilators in a makeshift triage area to await a steady […]
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CREST Services
Brian Montgomery Clinical Resources for Equipment Support Technology Services Inc (CREST Services for short), Lewisville, Tex, provides equipment support and a range of consulting services to hospitals and health care facilities coast to coast. As some companies scale operations back to ride out the recession, CREST has managed steady growth and has even been adding […]
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2010 Joint Commission Laboratory Equipment Standards
Starting January 1, 2010, the Joint Commission standards for the laboratory accreditation program will have the new six-digit numbers. This change is part of the Standards Improvement Initiative (SII) launched by The Joint Commission last year when the standards for the hospital accreditation program were changed. SII involved revisions to the format, structure, numbering, and […]
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Setting Standards
Standardized procedures help the team at SSMIHT improve cost efficiency, customer satisfaction, and patient outcomes
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