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cedure room. It was an easy fix, but it was crazy."
8. Bad blood? Is crazy too strong a word for what this facility
manager witnessed from a surveyor? "The supply cabinets in our OR
are metal," she says.
"The surveyor took an
alcohol swab, wiped it
on a tiny rust spot and
said, 'This room was not
cleaned properly. The
cabinets have blood
dripping from them!'"
9. Discolored
Velcro? OK, so sur-
veyors aren't infallible.
Sometimes what they think they see isn't really what they see at all.
"The Velcro we used to secure our GI endoscopes was white but had
discolored over the years," recalls another administrator. "The survey-
or thought the
Velcro was contami-
nated. It wasn't, but
we solved the 'prob-
lem' by changing the
Velcro color to
black." It'd be nice if
all fixes were that
easy — and that
cheap.
A C C R E D I T A T I O N
A LITTLE RUSTY?
One surveyor
thought she saw
something else
dripping from a
metal cabinet.
COLOR BLIND These Velcro straps raised
concerns, but there was an easy solution.
