Welcome to Safety Management Services, Inc.
We are dedicated to providing health care facilities expert consultation in the area of accreditation, survey preparation and regulatory affairs. SMS, Inc. assists healthcare organizations as they prepare the programs of their Physical Environment for survey, regardless of the accreditation entity. SMS, Inc. works with organizations accredited by:
- The Joint Commission® (TJC)
- American Osteopathic Association (AOA)/Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP)
- DNV/National Integrated Accreditation for Healthcare Organizations (NIAHOSM)
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
SMS, Inc. provides comprehensive Environment of Care®, Emergency Management and Life Safety Code® support services, including Statement of Conditions™, mock surveys, safety risk assessments, and publishes a variety of technical publications.
We also host EC-Online™ The health care industry's foremost web-based code and standards research service - EC-Online addresses facility-generated questions posed in relation to TJC, AOA, CMS, NFPA®, OSHA and EPA standards and guidelines.
An Important Note on the Swine Flu Event
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) have identified a new strain of swine influenza causing infections in North America, namely Mexico and the United States. This has raised concerns in the healthcare community as well as the public.
To assist our clients, SMS has established a direct link to APIC ( http://www.apic.org/ ), the national organization for infection prevention and control. The APIC site...
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Dear Healthcare Professionals
Thank you for your interest in Safety Management Services, Inc.'s (SMS, Inc.'s) QuickCheck™: Inventory & Sustainability Tool that was referenced in the article, "A Process for Determining Sustainability During Emergencies: Dealing with the 96-hour Rule" that appeared in the September-October 2008 edition of Inside ASHE. Created in an MS Excel (.xls) format, this Tool contains interactive tables for calculating the consumption rate...
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Dear Colleagues
The Joint Commission has just published detailed information on the much anticipated revisions to their accreditation scoring and decision-making process. As published in the August edition of Perspectives, these revisions will take effect January 1, 2009 for all accreditation and certification programs. I have reviewed this 20 page publication and tried to pare it down to a page or two summarizing the significant changes which appear as...
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