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After years of development, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has created a respiratory protection device prototype that is expected to improve health care workers comfort and tolerance when wearing these devices.
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Common wisdom suggests the drug-addicted doctor is different from the drug-addicted sales rep or homeless person.
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Health care systems handle cases of employee substance abuse in a variety of ways from punitive measures to providing treatment and long follow-up care and monitoring.
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Hospitals increasingly are teaching managers to look for signs of drug abuse among employees, focusing on subtle clues like talk of financial problems or more blatant signs, such as arriving to work late or failing to show up as scheduled.
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Standardized language in health care is not yet universal, which can cause problems when implementing electronic health records (EHRs) in an employee health setting.
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What at first seemed the tragic but otherwise unremarkable death of an elderly woman, comedian Joan Rivers, has turned out to be entirely preventable and the result of serious malpractice, according to a federal report and malpractice attorneys.
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The risk of alarm fatigue prompted clinicians at Cincinnati (OH) Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) to institute processes that reduced cardiac monitoring alarms by 80%. These are the processes implemented at the hospital:
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Risk financing is critical to enterprise risk management, but many healthcare administrators, including risk managers, can get lost in the financial details and decisions to be made.
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Providing insurance to employees for damages stemming from workplace violence can increase your facility’s MediCare Value-Based Purchasing Program Scores, says Rich Kosinski, president of Specialty Insurance Advisors (SIA) in North Andover, MA, which provides such coverage. Even a bonus is possible.
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Patients attacking employees is not the only type of workplace violence that should trouble risk managers.
