Management Plans
- 3/13/2010
- Author: Kristine Miller
- Category: EC News Blog
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More and more of you are working in health care organizations that offer several types of care. For example, your organization may encompass hospital and long term care settings. Or maybe it’s hospital and behavioral health care. Or maybe it’s hospital, long term care, and behavioral health care.
Whatever the mix, here’s the question: When you sit down to write your EC management plans, does each management plan have to specifically address each of these settings?
Well, according to Joint Commission EC experts, the answer is yes. You have to address all of the settings in all of the plans. But there are two ways you could do this:
1) write one batch of plans to cover all settings, or
2) write a unique batch of plans for each specific setting.
Either approach is OK. There will be specific and unique issues that must be addressed regardless of method.
Of course, remoteness could complicate attempts to write a common plan. Separate facilities might be better served with independent plans.
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