The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Engineering, in collaboration with The Joint Commission, has released the first in a new series of resources to help health care facilities comply with the most challenging life safety and environment-of-care accreditation standards. Additional resources will be released regularly through 2016. For more on the Focus on Compliance initiative and to access the first resource, on managing risk associated with utility systems, visit www.ashe.org/compliance.

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