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Just Ask ASHE:Q1 2021 WebinarSpeaker: ASHEGet trusted answers to your compliance questions from a panel of code experts. 

This webinar discuss how to break the reactive and expensive cycle that plaques most facilities and turn the corner towards positive audits and long term cost savings.

This webinar covers these two types of systems and the code requirements that apply to each. Learn when and where to use them, and the varying limitations of each of the model codes. Understanding these systems can help to ensure that the correct components are specified and installed, and that the system will be code-compliant

This presentation will examine the current & emerging compliance survey requirements, while also preparing your facility for any survey.

This presentation explores the pertinent changes in healthcare ventilation systems related to the recent release (Sept. 1 , 2020) of ASHRAE 170-2017, Addendum a. The presentation includes a short review of ASHRAE 170 itself, then moves to the highlights of the specific Addendum a.

A ventilation management plan will ultimately make the hospital a safer place for patients to heal.

ASHE has acknowledged proven best practices and partnered with health care professionals to provide a tool to enable health care organizations to manage their most valuable assets. This will aid users in articulating a risk assessment model, and it will provide a comprehensive explanation of how the model enables organizations to maintain compliance.Download the Tool

Jonathan Willard, PMP, LEED-AP, Acute Medical Gas Services. This presentation will review the new requirements for identifying the responsible facility authority and the qualifications necessary for this position, as well as an overview of the Permit-to-Work system.

Just Ask ASHE service is an opportunity to get trusted answers to your compliance questions. Four times a year, ASHE will hold Just Ask ASHE webinars. A panel of code experts will discuss the latest compliance developments.

Jason Beers, Bob Loohauis, Steve Stuebe, Gary Dennis. This session will provide you with a better understanding of the CMS requirements for emergency preparedness for electrical power.

Greg Swafford CPD, GPD. In this presentation, we review the impact of common building water issues, the principles of effective water management, and how emerging technology can consistently deliver hot water throughout the facility, minimize stagnation, optimize system performance, and support ASHRAE 188 compliance.

Classification schemas are designed to provide health care planners, designers, and operators with a common nomenclature, and to generate these benefits for health care facilities departments.

Kevin Scarlett, Jacob McCall, Benjamin Leutze. This presentation will address the reasons behind these standards, common compliance questions and the action steps for a successful outcome.

The Joint Commission is now stressing the need to maximize technology during surveys to minimize contact. Many hospitals around the country still believe that surveyors prefer paper documentation and have resisted the move to electronic document management. Educate yourself on the facts, and get ready for virtual surveys as the new normal by learning from Joint Commission veterans George Mills and Jason Beers.

Go beyond simple compliance and ace your survey by excelling in four complex areas.

This session will cover the process of implementing a barrier management protocol. We will discuss what quality standard operating practice for barriers could look like and additional tools that can be used to achieve compliance.