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Focusing more on personal interactions can defuse potentially violent situations, says Sean Ahrens, CPP, BSCP, CSC, senior security consultant with Schirmer Engineering in Glenview, IL.
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A recent shooting incident at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore shows the need to prepare for gun violence, but it also illustrates the limitations of any prevention program, security experts say.
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The employee in question is still facing criminal charges, but Perry (GA) Hospital has confirmed that a technician faked mammogram results.
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A hospital in Georgia is facing many questions after a former employee was indicted for what authorities say was intentional fraud in entering negative results for mammograms that, in fact, had not been read by a radiologist.
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The lawsuit filed recently by Margaret O'Connor, RN, the risk manager at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth, MA, until she was fired recently after reporting an EMTALA violation, outlines what she says was an act of retaliation by hospital leaders.
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An experienced risk manager says she was fired by her hospital for reporting an Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) violation after hospital executives discouraged reporting it for fear of a large penalty. She is now suing the hospital, which denies her allegations.
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Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace continue to be a tricky problem for health care risk managers, who need to ensure that employees do not violate patient privacy even when off duty but also must avoid violating the personal rights of those employees. Failing to address the situation adequately could mean a HIPAA violation or damage to the provider's reputation, but using too heavy a hand could run afoul of labor laws.
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Patients who sue their surgeons for malpractice are more frequently receiving indemnity payments for increasingly larger amounts, according to a study of 3,300 cases across several states over a recent six-year period.
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The fake terror drill that left staff traumatized and the hospital facing a state investigation was a "very painful lesson," says Chief Operations Officer Teressa Conley, RN, MBA, MSN, EA, at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, NV.