What the Joint Commission Standards Consolidation Means for Healthcare Facilities
What's new with Joint Commission standards? The Joint Commission recently unveiled Accreditation 360, its most comprehensive overhaul of hospital accreditation in decades. It is designed to reduce administrative burden, clarify expectations, and elevate performance...
A Succession Planning Roadmap for Healthcare Facility Leaders
Not sure if your facility needs a succession planning roadmap? Let’s be honest: you can’t reduce succession planning to a fill-in-the-blank exercise. Healthcare facilities management is too complex and too critical for shortcuts. Every facility has its own challenges...
Technical Writing in Learning and Development: Creating Effective Training Materials
If you are an instructional designer or training manager looking for tools and techniques for creating clear, concise written communication, this article is for you. The short answer is to learn best practices in technical writing. The long answer? Keep reading....
An Introduction to Healthcare Facility Management
If you've been looking for a career that’s both challenging and deeply rewarding, consider healthcare, one of the most complex and highly regulated industries in the world, second only to nuclear energy. You may have experience in building maintenance or facilities...
Survey Readiness: What Facility Managers Need to Know
If you manage a healthcare facility, you’ve probably heard the term survey readiness more times than you can count. And when you're prepping for a visit from the Joint Commission, your state's health department, or another accrediting organization, being...
What is the MECH certification?
If you work in healthcare engineering or manage a healthcare facility, you’ve probably heard about the MECH certification offered by the American Society of Healthcare Engineering (ASHE). But what exactly is it, and why is it worth checking out? The MECH...
ASHRAE: What Does It Mean?
So you may be wondering what the abbreviation ASHRAE stands for. ASHRAE is the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. Yes, it's a mouthful, but this organization is a major player in how we heat, cool, and ventilate the built...
Leading Up
LEADING UPWARDS 2020 has given me a clear perspective on what's important and what's not. Despite all the chaos in the world right now, I know that I have so much to be thankful for, and I truly am. Today, I am celebrating my team. Between February and August this...
WON Doors
Did you know that WON doors have a quarterly preventative maintenance requirement in the maintenance manual? I didn’t either, but Reo did! I got to pull both Reo and Drew into this video. I learned a lot from both of them on this one so we had to share it! We greased...
Unmotivated or Disconnected?
Unmotivated or disconnected? If you're not receiving the feedback that you want for your team, consider your approach. In-person, relaxed conversations tend to be FAR more productive than email or meetings. Don't assault your team's Inbox with requests for feedback....
Give and Take
How do you strike the balance between your natural leadership style versus your adapted style? Is it the responsibility of the leader or the direct report to adapt? Great questions. Honestly, I've been struggling to answer them for years. I find myself pulled back to...
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