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Environment of Care^® News is your key to the best information on the environment of care. Twelve issues per year bring you accurate, up-to-the-minute EC standards news, dynamic examples, and tips for survey success for hospitals, critical access hospitals, ambulatory care, office-based surgery practices, long term care, home care, laboratory, and behavioral health care organizations.

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Staff
Executive Editor: Kristine M. Miller, M.F.A.
Senior Project Manager: Christine Wyllie, M.A.
Manager, Accreditation and Certification Products: Diane Bell
Executive Director, Publications: Catherine Chopp Hinckley, Ph.D.

Technical Support and Review Provided by
Standards Interpretation Group, Division of Accreditation Operations:
Patricia Adamski, R.N., M.S., M.B.A., Director
George Mills, M.B.A., F.A.S.H.E., C.H.F.M., C.E.M., Senior Engineer
Jerry Gervais, C.H.F.M., C.H.S.P., Associate Director/Engineer
Michael Chisholm, C.H.F.M., Associate Director/Engineer
Anne M. Guglielmo, LEED A.P. Engineer

Division of Standards and Survey Methods:
John Fishbeck, R.A., Associate Director

Editorial Advisory Board:
Jen Carlson, M.P.H., M.B.A., Loyola University Health System, Maywood, IL
York Chan, C.H.F.M., Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Katherine Grimm, M.P.H., HealthEast Care System, St. Paul, MN
David P. Klein, P.E., Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC
Michael Kuechenmeister, F.A.S.H.E., C.H.F.M., C.P.E., West Chester Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
John D. Maurer, C.H.F.M., C.H.S.P., Delnor Hospital, Geneva, IL
John W. McKinney III, Atrium Medical Center, Middletown, OH
William R. (Bill) Morgan, S.A.S.H.E., C.H.F.M., St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Boise, ID
Jim Riggs, M.P.A., C.S.P., University Health Systems, Greenville, NC
George A. (Skip) Smith, C.H.F.M., S.A.S.H.E., Catholic Health Initiatives, Denver, CO

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Author Guidelines
Environment of Care® News features timely, practical articles about meeting Joint Commission EC standards. The key EC areas are emphasized, including the management of safety, security, hazardous materials and waste, emergencies, life safety and fire prevention, medical equipment, and utilities.

Your idea should describe your own organization’s noteworthy EC activities or provide specific, hands-on help for EC standards compliance and survey preparation. The opportunity to share an EC success story is open to all types of health care organizations. Do not submit completed articles without first contacting the editor. Once you are given the go-ahead, write your article in an informal, first-person style and provide a brief description of your organization (location, number of beds, types of patients, etc.). Articles should be between 700 and 1,400 words, including any accompanying tables or charts. Please submit your article in a file format compatible with Microsoft Word 6.0 by e-mail to ecnews@jcrinc.com or on CD.

A panel of Joint Commission experts on EC standards and accreditation issues will review each article that is considered suitable for publication. Notification of the editorial decision usually will be provided within one month. Authors should be available to answer the editor’s questions and approve edited copy.

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Kristine M. Miller, Executive Editor
Joint Commission Resources
One Renaissance Boulevard
Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois 60181
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ecnews@jcrinc.com

For additional information about submission guidelines, please call the editor at 630/792-5447.

Contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the issue of Environment of Care® News in which their article appears. Joint Commission Resources does not pay for article submissions.