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Fall Pocket Guide: Risk and Defensibility
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This guide is designed to encourage a proactive, systemic approach to enhancing resident safety by minimizing the likelihood of resident falls and mitigating their consequences.
More Money More Problems
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The frequency of Alternative Litigation Financing (ALF) where a third party provides money to cash-needy claimant in exchange for a financial stake in the outcome of the case is growing rapidly. This article examines the risk exposures of ALF.
Client Intake and Proper Client Selection
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Client intake should never be dismissed as an unimportant but necessary task when taking on a new client. Creating a thorough client intake process is essential in order to establish a strong foundation for an attorney-client relationship whether the relationship lasts for weeks or years.
Thorny Issues Involving the Concealment of Information
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Lawyers must balance their duties to their client against both express legal duties to adversaries and general duties of truthfulness.
Risk Transfer Mechanisms for Contractors
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Risk Control Bulletin : Many firms frequently contract with other firms to provide services or perform some type of construction work. In the event of an accident risk transfer mechanisms can prove invaluable. Download to learn more.
Risk Management Strategies for the Physicians Office
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This resource discusses the ERM model which represents a continuous process applied across the medical practice and influenced by staff conduct at every level.
CNA Risk Management Strategies for the Physician Office
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Physician risk management programs today require a comprehensive and strategic approach known as enterprise risk management (ERM).
Pressure Injuries: Sound Documentation Is Key to Defensibility
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This edition of Carefully Speaking® focuses on documentation of three vital elements of care: resident assessment/examination, care/service planning and team communication.
Subcontractor Prequalification Guide
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When developing a prequalification form or application the hiring contractor should consider the following.
Resident Falls: A Collaborative Strategy for Risk Mitigation
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A summary of common fall-related allegations and preventive measures. An effective fall- and fracture-reduction program can help curb the rise in claim severity.
Conflicts of Interest
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Conflicts of interest have constituted a leading cause of legal malpractice claims for years. Despite repeated warnings to lawyers and law firms about this risk they continue to engage in conflicts of interest.
Ambulatory Surgery Centers: Enhancing Continuity of Care
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This edition of inBrief® offers a checklist designed to help ASCs achieve safe, seamless transitions in care by focusing on such key areas as staffing, training and communication.
Aging Services Claims Report 2016
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CNA's ninth in a series of aging services claim reports reveals that a focus on a compassionate resident-centric culture as a key characteristic of high-performing organizations. Learn more about the major risks and stories from the field from the 2016 Aging Services Claim Study.
Telemedicine Update: Coordinating Remote and In-person Care
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This edition of Vantage Point® discusses how telemedicine misuse can be mitigated by implementing policies to address the risks posed by remote care, as well as modifying their procedures to better coordinate virtual and in-person modes of care.
Urgent Care: Five Essential Strategies to Minimize Common Risks
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This issue of inBrief® reviews the customary scope of urgent care services and offers risk management strategies designed to prevent or mitigate clinical lapses that may result in patient injury and consequent litigation.
Aging Services Mergers and Closures: A Resident Care Perspective
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This edition of AlertBulletin suggests a variety of proactive measures designed to help organizations achieve a safe a smooth transition during a merger or closure.
Emergency preparedness planning should be a core component of every healthcare setting's risk management program.
Strengthening Facility-Family Relationships: Transparency is Key
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This edition of CareFully Speaking® addresses four areas where transparency is of critical importance: marketing resident selection billing/collection activities and interactions with family councils.
Elements of an Effective Screen When Onboarding
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How can your firm implement an effective conflicts of interest screen and have some comfort in its effectiveness if and when the time comes to defend against disqualification motion.
Elderly Patients: Reduce Injury Risk by Enhancing Geriatric Care
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This edition of Vantage Point® presents claim data on the frequency, severity and financial impact of injuries to elderly inpatients.
Home Healthcare: Common Exposures and Effective Mitigations
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This edition of Vantage Point offers various risk management suggestions for home healthcare providers, ranging from practice guidelines to hazard assessment procedures to security measures for both patients/residents and caregivers.
Supply Chain Management: Avoid Disruption by Enhancing Readiness
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As outside suppliers become less reliable problems related to internal supply chain operations become more visible and potentially harmful.
Managing the Threats of Workplace Violence
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Compelling evidence suggests that employers who take a proactive stance toward concerning behaviors are more successful in deterring workplace violence.
Electronic Healthcare Records: Maximize Benefits Minimize Risks
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Electronic healthcare records (EHRs) have revolutionized the practice of medicine creating the potential for significant improvements in patient safety clinical teamwork and operational efficiency.
Pressure Injuries: Enhancing Assessment and Documentation
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This edition of Carefully Speaking presents a range of documentation measures including a skin integrity program gap analysis tool to help organizations reduce their risk and strengthen defensibility.
Patient Safety Data: A Guide to Preventing Unwanted Disclosure
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Quality and safety improvement in healthcare settings depends upon candid discussion of process problems provider misjudgments staff miscommunications adverse events near misses and other lapses.
SPAC Clients Pose Unique Risks for Law Firms
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In this edition of Vantage Point : In this article we explain what SPACs are and why representing their sponsors may pose risks for law firms and lawyers.
Wandering and Elopement: Assessing and Addressing the Risks
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In this edition of Carefully Speaking : Wandering and elopement are among the most serious and costly hazards for aging services organizations.
The Remote-Ready Law Firm: Managing Long Distance Relationships
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The benefits of creating a remote-capable business are well worth the investment enabling a firm to maximize productivity when traveling attract top-level talent and maintain functionality during a crisis.
Reopening the Workplace: Employment Law Considerations
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While employers must consider safety and health issues as they create policies and protocols to enable workers to return to the physical workplace, they must also be mindful to avoid the many employment law pitfalls that exist
Geriatric Psychiatric Units: Six Keys to Safe and Efficient Care
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One quarter of residents admitted to aging services settings have a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia bipolar disorder depression or anxiety disorder and a significantly higher proportion exhibit some degree of dementia or memory loss.
This edition of Carefully Speaking examines resident-on-resident sexual abuse an emerging risk that calls for a focused proactive response.
Resident Documentation: Creating a More Useful Record of Care
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This edition of CareFully Speaking focuses on those aspects of resident care/service most vulnerable to documentation deficiencies, ranging from placement determination and risk assessment to medication therapy and changes in condition.
Special Resource: The Mental Health Crisis
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The ongoing national mental health crisis is characterized by too few inpatient beds and overtaxed outpatient facilities. In fact under the present delivery system it is estimated that more than half a million individuals with serious mental illness do not receive the care they need.
Emergency Preparedness: Crafting a Sound Disaster Response Plan
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As weather-related exposures increase emergency preparedness planning becomes an ever more significant aspect of the organization's overall risk management program.
Pediatric Acute Care: A Systematic Approach to Error Reduction
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This edition of Vantage Point® offers strategies to help pediatricians hospitalists nurses and other healthcare providers and administrators identify major sources of harm prevent common pediatric safety lapses and recognize critical situations.
Resolving Disputes Regarding the Client File
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Implementing and enforcing a file retention and destruction policy helps law firms safeguard client confidences and organize information to permit effective representation. Learn more about how to properly maintain client files to avoid disputes.
Documentation Deficiencies: Better Records Mean Stronger Defense
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Sound documentation is an essential risk management tool for aging services organizations enhancing both quality of care and legal defensibility. The healthcare information record serves first and foremost as the foundation for communication among providers and caregivers over time.
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