The current Environment of Care (EC), Emergency Management (EM) and Life Safety (LS) standards and survey information for the accreditation process--all in one convenient online resource in STAT!Ref online. That's the heart of this must-have resource, the 2010 Environment of Care Essentials for Health Care. This popular product features the EC, EM and LS chapters, developed through the Joint Commission's Standards Improvement Initiative (SII).

The 2010 Environment of Care® Essentials for Health Care features information on how to understand the EC, EM and LS chapters and numbering and why this was developed. It explains how EC, EM and LS will be surveyed and provides details on the scoring process. The title is the inside guide to understanding the on-site environment of care survey portion of the unannounced survey accreditation process.

This highly useable resource presents 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. It's an invaluable tool for managers in charge of multiple facilities.

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