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Verifying the qualifications of staff can sometimes mean trying to decide when embellishment crosses the line into falsification, says A. Kevin Troutman, JD, an attorney with the law firm of Fisher & Phillips in New Orleans, who assists hospitals with risk management projects.
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When the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Medical Center discovered that 22 health care workers had used bogus certificates in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to prove they were current with required training, leaders at the hospital were shocked.
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Pass the baton or pass the NUTS, but either way you're passing on vital patient information that can improve patient safety and reduce the risk of adverse events, say the risk managers who use these innovative patient handoff strategies.
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A recent incident in which police officers used a stun gun to stop a man who was trying to leave a hospital with his own child has prompted concern among health care professionals who wonder if the action was justified, especially because the man was holding the infant at the time he was stunned.
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The recent case in which a woman died while awaiting care in a hospital emergency department (ED), while others called 911 for help, could be a reminder of the need for staff to check for updates on patients waiting for emergency treatment.
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When a 43-year-old woman's family and a bystander had to call 911 to seek help for her as she was lying on the floor in the ED at Martin Luther King Jr. — Harbor Hospital in Los Angeles, it was the beginning of the end for the troubled hospital.
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The Specialized Information Publishers Foundation (SIPF) has awarded the 2007 Award for Editorial Excellence to Healthcare Risk Management for its coverage of the criminal allegations against health care providers that arose after Hurricane Katrina.
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In Florida, nursing home facilities must adopt and make public a statement of the rights and responsibilities of the residents of such facilities.
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Fauquier Health System of Warrenton, VA, has announced that it is the first health system in the nation to pilot a system that will improve patient safety by automatically incorporating a patient's current prescription information into the hospital environment.
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