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Never assume that all sex offenders are the same, cautions Michael Fogel, PsyD, a forensic psychologist at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Doing so will lead you to either overreact to some patients who pose little harm or underreact to those who truly pose a risk to others.
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As the evidence mounts that patients and long-term care residents can be threatened by the presence of sex offenders in their facilities, some communities are responding with efforts to protect the vulnerable.
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Health care facilities see a wide array of different types of people admitted for care, and not all of them will be the type you want to take home for dinner. Convicted sex offenders get sick and need long-term care just like everyone else, and that means you must be ready to respond when they are admitted to your facility.
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News: A middle-aged man was suffering from a fever, facial swelling and redness, and nasal congestion. After consulting with his regular family doctor and two other doctors, the man was diagnosed with viral influenza and a mild drug reaction. When the man's symptoms persisted and his eyes began bleeding, however, the family doctor finally realized that his patient was suffering from an eye infection.
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Responding to concerns that some health care providers would not have enough time to comply, the Federal Trade Commission is moving the deadline for its so-called Red Flags Rule to May 1, 2009, six months later than originally planned.
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The American Hospital Association (AHA) in Washington, DC, is urging the health care community to adopt a standardized color scheme for patient wristbands in order to avoid dangerous confusion about what the wristbands mean from one facility to another.
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It is human nature to take shortcuts or ignore the burdensome steps sometimes involved in doing a task the right way, and when there is no negative consequence, the deviation can be reinforced.
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Four recognized categories of hospital-acquired conditions, "never events" that have received more attention in recent years, make up 12.2% of total medical professional liability costs, according to the 2008 Hospital Professional Liability and Physician Liability Benchmark Analysis released recently by risk management services provider Aon Corp. and the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM), both in Chicago.
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Any risk manager with hopes of reducing birth trauma rates should look to The Seton Family of Hospitals, based in Austin, TX, for lessons in what can yield dramatic results.
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On Aug. 22, 2008, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a proposed rule that would adopt updated versions of the standards for electronic transactions under HIPAA.
