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>> Cafeteria 5 <<

Today was a crazy day at the hospital. There were all sorts of loose ends relating to the Joint Commission's review, not that anybody was worried about mere accreditation. This hospital was a class act. Typically, angst was competitive, about not being a solitary mar on an otherwise across the board perfect review which would usually be rewarded by the JC skipping its review for the following two years. Imagine being the sole cause of next year's review... and the next. It was a holy grail, of sorts. The JC nearly always nailed somebody on some stupid detail, like the distance of an IV storage closet from the emergency industrial eye wash - as if getting sterile IV solution in the eye was a problem, let alone a disaster waiting to happen. Hospital security people were placed in charge of the too whatevers, too up, too down, too left too right, too long, too short, too loud, too easy. Easy targets were tall items stuffed on top shelves too close to the ceilings and anything stowed on the floor. One just does not use the floor as a lowest shelf... something about sprinkler water access and flow. And did the shit fly when the assistant security officer measured the main pediatric intensive care unit and found that the high intensity rooms - the jewels of the unit - were two inches shorter than state spec, which was about 4 inches longer than similar specifications listed in the surrounding states. So? So, ICU charges had to be down graded to normal room billings. And yes, the insurers wanted refunded monies plus damages for past unjustified over billing. That two inch carpentry screw up was, in fact, imposed when the JC had prior decided that the new state of the art unit had walls whose bearing widths were too