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Environment of Care and Life Safety Rounding Checklist

by Stephen Cranford, from the Community

Conduct comprehensive environment of care and life safety rounds with this checklist. Review safety management practices, fire doors and extinguishers, egress and storage, patient room and equipment conditions, and hand hygiene. Verify security controls, badge use, medication room access, and infant abduction procedures. Check hazmat storage, SDS access, PPE, eyewash stations, and waste handling. Assess infection control measures, air pressure relationships, and utility systems including lighting, medical gas, and emergency exits. Monitor HIPAA privacy risks and optional water management logs.

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This Environment of Care Rounds checklist supports hospitals and healthcare facilities in auditing safety, infection prevention, privacy and information security, engineering and life safety systems, interior design, patient safety, supply chain and sterile storage, and food service operations. It covers requirements such as emergency power and lighting, medical gas procedures, housekeeping and waste handling, sharps and PPE, HIPAA privacy safeguards, fire and egress compliance, hazardous materials and spill response, refrigeration and temperature logs, and VA-specific security practices. Use it to standardize rounds, document findings, and drive corrective actions that enhance compliance and patient safety across inpatient and outpatient areas.
by Chris Braun, from the Community
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Environment of Care Checklist
This Environment of Care checklist supports hospital teams in assessing safety and compliance across patient care areas. It covers corridors and egress, life safety systems and fire equipment, glucometer hygiene, crash cart readiness, and equipment warmers with documented temperature ranges. Inspect clean and dirty utility rooms, storage practices, oxygen cylinder handling, and nutrition room logs. Review medication room security, labeling, and cold-chain monitoring. Verify eyewash stations, infection control practices, hand hygiene, isolation signage, and biohazard labeling. Includes staff competency checks, preventative maintenance tags, alarm response, and protection of patient information.
by Nicole Tietz, from the Community
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This Environment of Care site audit checklist helps healthcare facilities assess operational compliance and safety across clinics and treatment areas. It covers lobby postings and licenses, safe environment standards for doors, floors, walls, and ceilings, infection control practices, sharps and biomedical waste handling, and cold storage management. It also reviews fire and life safety measures, hazardous materials and waste procedures, medical equipment inspections, electrical safety, security controls, medication management, emergency preparedness, and staff knowledge.
by Caleb Kelley, from the Community
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QHS Environment of Care Rounds Checklist
This Environment of Care rounds checklist helps healthcare teams evaluate safety, security, hazardous materials management, emergency preparedness, fire safety, physical environment, infection prevention, utilities, and staff knowledge. Review work and storage areas, exits, sprinklers, fire alarms, oxygen and gas cylinders, electrical panels, medication and patient refrigerators, isolation pressures, and facility rooms. Confirm signage, clearances, temperature logs, cleanliness, and compliance, and document notifications and interim life safety measures to address findings.
by Ken Choy, from the Community
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