This customizable document, Life Safety Summaries, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Life Safety and Interim Life Safety Management Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

MCN provides more than 80 health care specific policy and procedure manuals for Acute Care Hospitals, Ambulatory Care, Behavioral Health, Home Health, Physician Practice, and Long Term Care. MCN’s policy and procedure manuals focus on the latest healthcare "hot topic" issues related to patient safety and prevention of medical healthcare errors.

Here is some sample content from Life Safety Summaries:

	POLICY: All Health Care Occupancies Surveys and incident reports generated by fire protection deficiencies, failures and user errors that threaten patient care areas during a fire shall be reported to the Safety Officer. The summaries of the Life Safety Management Program will be reviewed by the Safety/Environment of Care Committee and other key staff members. Problems or trends will be extracted and identified. If problems or trends are identified during the review process, specific actions will be established to correct or modify unacceptable conditions. These corrective actions will...
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	...for effectiveness soon after implementation. There will be ongoing monitoring of the corrective action along with analysis and recommendations for continuous quality improvement. Annual reviews will be made of past problems and resolutions and continual monitoring of problems will be evaluated. Documentation for the proceeding will be found in the Fire Drill Evaluations, the Annual Evaluation of the Life Safety Management Program and the Safety/Environment of Care Committee Minutes. ...