Healthcare Risk Management – June 1, 2006
June 1, 2006
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'Patient dumping' charges in Los Angeles call attention to care of homeless
A Los Angeles hospital is under fire for what critics call "patient dumping" after local media aired footage of a homeless woman who had been treated ... -
Document diligently, send patients with needed items
When you must discharge a homeless patient with nowhere to go, make sure you document extremely well and avoid making mistakes that can cast your hospital in a bad light, experts advise. -
Plaintiffs may push cases alleging EMTALA violations
Plaintiffs' attorneys soon may use the discharge of homeless patients to push the boundaries of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)... -
Avoid risk from obese with specific policies, rules
As Americans get bigger and hospitals see more large patients seeking bariatric surgery, risk managers are worried about the increased liability risk they pose. -
Guidelines call for special care with bariatrics
These are some excerpts from the special guidelines that PHT Services, an insurer in South Carolina, provides to client hospitals that perform bariatric surgery... -
On-site JCAHO surveys offer lessons to others
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' (JCAHO) switch to conducting all types of on-site accreditation surveys ... is causing risk managers and other administrators to rethink some key strategies. -
Fun and games help staff prepare for JCAHO
Getting your staff ready for an unannounced survey by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) is different from the old way of preparing tons of charts and notebooks for a formal presentation... -
Checklist helps Baylor staff ready for surprise surveys
When you hear that today is the day you'll be surveyed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), it's too late to make any major improvements. -
Fake JCAHO surveyors still trying to access hospitals
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) reports that fake surveyors still are trying to gain access to health care facilities and urges risk managers to stay on alert. -
JCAHO warns about problems with some tubing
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has issued a special warning to double-check how tubes and catheters are connected to patients... -
Wrong-site surgery rare, major injuries even more so
Insurance records suggest that wrong-site surgery is extremely rare and major injury from it even rarer, according to a study supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. -
Legal Review and Commentary: 5-year delay in notifying patient of dental implants recall leads to confidential settlement in Indiana
In 1984, a woman received dental implants to replace her temporomandibular joints, connecting the jaw to the skull. -
Legal Review and Commentary: Court overturns malicious credentialing verdict
A patient undergoing back surgery experienced a cardiac arrest after losing excessive amounts of blood during the procedure. Although he was resuscitated, the man suffered severe and permanent brain damage.