Craft Your Compliance Competency

Health care facilities managers oversee the health care physical environment and ensure compliance with associated regulatory requirements in a way that ensures patient care and safety is the foremost priority for the entire facility management team. 

This is demonstrated through, but not limited to, possessing a comprehensive working knowledge of health care physical environment-related regulatory requirements for accreditation at the federal/state/local levels, as well as an understanding of the actions required to ensure compliance through:

• Policy/procedure development
• Documentation of integrated life safety inspection
• Compliance-related testing, maintenance and documentation of facility-related systems
• Identification of the responsible facility authority for medical gas systems
• Maintaining the appropriate permits for work programs (ex. above ceiling, medical gases, hot work, etc.)