Clinton Butts

Sep 20, 2024 | hfmmagazine.com | Jonathan Flannery |Clinton Butts |Adam Bazer

Let’s be honest with ourselves; So much of our lives are beyond our control. The era when we are born. The families of which we are a member. The geography of where our home resides. And yet, despite the thousands of details of our life that are beyond our control, every moment of every day, we are presented with a choice, an endless question. How do we choose to respond to the factors in our lives that are within our control?

Sep 15, 2024 | hfmmagazine.com | Clinton Butts |Pier-George Zanoni |Lisa Walt |Jonathan Flannery

In 2011, the International Code Council (ICC) and the American Society for Health Care Engineering came together to form the Committee on Healthcare (CHC). The objective of this committee is to develop code change proposals to the International Codes (I-Codes), which will result in the most contemporary, effective and efficient provisions for health care facilities to assure the highest level of safety for all users of such facilities.

Sep 10, 2024 | hfmmagazine.com | Adam Bazer |Jonathan Flannery |Pier-George Zanoni |Clinton Butts

Health care facilities professionals should develop a greater understanding of the requirements that apply to their organizations. Health care facilities are under continual scrutiny by various regulatory authorities, most notably the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS allows health care facilities to be accredited by third-party organizations that are deemed by CMS to have requirements that are comparable and at least as stringent as the CMS Conditions of Participation (CoPs).

Dec 4, 2023 | hfmmagazine.com | Clinton Butts

Health care organizations often turn to their accreditation organizations for answers to complex code questions that they can then share with their facilities staff. Complying with health care physical environment requirements is complex.