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A good relationship with in-house counsel will help you both to your jobs better, especially if you are employed by a large, complex health care organization.
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A man arrived at the emergency department (ED) with chest pain. While doctors attempted to find the cause of the pain, an inadvertent dislodging of the man's intravenous line (IV) caused swelling in his arm muscle...
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The president of the American Society for Health-care Risk Management (ASHRM), Peggy B. Martin, notes how the Tenet Healthcare Corp., the parent company of Memorial Medical Center, seems to be distancing itself from the accused clinicians.
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The murder accusations against clinicians at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans are another blow to the troubled Tenet Healthcare Corp., based in Dallas.
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Patient handoff now is known to be a high-risk time, with the transfer of responsibilities opening up the potential for misunderstandings, incomplete information, and other failures of communication that can threaten patient safety.
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While SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation) technique is a fairly straightforward concept, implementing the methodology can be more difficult than you might expect.
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A recent settlement by a New Jersey hospital chain should alert risk managers that federal investigators are taking a harder look at charge increases and possible violations of Medicare rules, says an attorney who has been following the case.
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Wandering occurs in 15%-60% of people with dementia.
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When Our Lady of Lourdes in Pasco, WA, brought in outside engineers to give them a fresh perspective on reducing falls, the team came up with several solutions.
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You probably conduct fire drills, evacuation drills, infant abduction drills, and mass casualty drills, but there is one more you might want to add to the schedule: critical birth drills.
