Facility Management

 “You can’t value patient safety more than employee safety because the employees are the ones taking care of the patients.”

“Whoever is running the organization, whether it’s a CEO of a health care setting or whether it’s an independent physician in their own private practice, they’re in charge, and they need to set the tone.”

“You’ve got to help them to be part of the solution. I find that if you take your biggest skeptics and make them part of the solution, converts become zealots. So if you can get them to believe and can get them to understand, you can find your champions.”

“To get C Suite to buy in here, they need to know that it’s a regulatory and a compliance issue.  No administrator wants to put their employees at risk, so they have to understand that there are risks to these hazardous drugs. I think the enforcement piece from that perspective comes largely from the fact that there are organizations out there surveying and inspecting and requiring compliance. This is a federal standard. This is not something we can pick and choose. It’s not something we can identify that, ‘Well, I’m going to do this part of it but I’m not going to do the other.’ It’s a symbiotic sort of thing. It needs to work in concert with everything and whoever is controlling those funds needs to recognize that it’s an employee safety risk, and a requirement from a federal perspective, and will trickle down into the state and accreditation perspectives.”