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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.
Find the Way Forward with a Missing Client
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Clients expect their attorneys to be available. A law firm that ignores client emails or phone calls will not be a law firm for long.
This edition of Home Care Briefing examines three core elements of a home care fall-reduction program: risk assessment staff education and post-incident response.
AlertBulletin: Antibiotic Overuse Stewardship Program
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This AlertBulletin offers strategies designed to prevent antibiotic overuse training and a formal program to reduce risk.
Selecting a Dust Hazard Analysis Provider
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A Dust Hazard Analysis is a critical step to protect your employees and prevent tragic accidents that can severely damage your facilites. An effective DHA includes information to classify and quantify the material(s) as combustible dust.
Off-label Product Use: Basic Risk Management Considerations
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This edition of inBrief suggests a range of risk management considerations and strategies relating to off-label use of FDA-approved products.
Risk Transfer Suggested Practices
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You may be able to reduce your chances of unknowingly accepting someone else’s liability or being exposed to additional liabilities by following the practices suggested in this guide.
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.
Resilience Checklist for Winter Weather
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Use this checklist to ensure you are prepared for the hazards that come with winter weather.
Photographic Wound Documentation: Ten Guidelines to Help Minimize Digital Imaging Exposures
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This AlertBulletin® is intended to help reduce risk for those organizations engaged in wound photography by standardizing their digital imaging practices.
Supply Chain Risk Management
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Understanding and analyzing your supply chain's strengths and vulnerabilities are vital components of business continuity management.
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.
Equipment Exposures – Before and After the Flood
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Floods can put your facility equipment at risk in a variety of ways, causing moisture-related damage and foreign debris deposits, whether water has reached the basement, production floor or first floor.
Patient Noncompliance: Better Communication Means Lower Risk
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Patient noncompliance including missed appointments cancelled procedures rejection of prescribed therapies frequent changing of providers and unbought or unused medications can contribute to patient injury in every type of healthcare setting.
MA Appeals Court Clarifies How Irrevocable Trusts
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In Practice with CNA discusses the potential challenges Wills Trusts and Estates practitioners face when a client representation involves the existence of an irrevocable trust which may influence eligibility for Medicaid.
Product Quality Supply Chain Tips for Success
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Companies use various strategies to execute a supply chain control plan. Internally managing the plan allows for continuous monitoring, making adjustments and implementing improvements.
Docking Inland River Barges at Terminals
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This guide provides information on how to mitigate risk at river terminals.
Hospital Discharge: Revamping Processes, Reducing Readmissions
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This edition of Vantage Point® offers a range of measures to retool the hospital discharge planning process and increase awareness of post-discharge care directives.
Epack 3 - Crime
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Our Epack 3 (EP3) policy was designed to provide clear solutions for complex management liability risks, with compartmentalized coverage options that work together and don't overlap.
Best Practice Tips for Remote Appearances
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As we approach a second year of remote law practice this is a good time to pause and reflect on what works and what doesn't work. While we are becoming comfortable in this new normal the circumstances have raised a number of practical and ethical concerns for attorneys.
This edition of Carefully Speaking® outlines strategies leaders can use to assess their organization's memory care strengths, limits and liability exposures.
Carefully Speaking®: Memory Care: Creating Safer Settings for the Cognitively Impaired
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This edition of Carefully Speaking® outlines strategies leaders can use to assess their organization's memory care strengths, limits and liability exposures.
You Missed a Deadline??? How to Avoid That Nightmare
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This edition of In Practice...with CNA, discusses the substantial risks that exist for law firms that fail to diligently monitor case dockets, read court orders and adhere to filing deadlines.
Employers can take steps to mitigate risks of negligent entrustment by ensuring the individuals they hire to operate vehicles are qualified, competent and responsible drivers
Negotiated Risk Agreements: When and How Should They Be Used?
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Negotiated risk agreements (NRAs) have become an increasingly popular means of managing potential liability while accommodating resident preferences.
Motion Is Money
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Much can be done to significantly reduce exposures that occur in a distribution operation. Download for an overview of Motion is Money a process of small changes that affect your organization's productivity efficiency and quality and in result affect your bottom line as well as reduce risk.
Waste and Linen Chute Protection
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The following tips can help keep your chute safe and reduce risk.
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.
Epack 3 - Fiduciary Liability
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CNA’s Epack 3 (EP3) Fiduciary Liability insurance is designed to address exposures arising from the administration and management of employee benefit and retirement plans.
Electrical Surge Protection
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This bulletin outlines the risks associated with electrical surge protective devices and how to help provide your facility with maximum protection against equipment damage resulting from electrical surges.
Business Resiliency Self-Assessment
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Complete this assessment and consider the corrective actions to improve your business resiliency.
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).
Winter Driving
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Organizations with employees who drive in winter for company purposes should refer to these safety tips.
Winter Driving Guide
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Provide your employees with these safety tips to help them navigate through the winter driving season.
This resource examines three major EMR-related issues and suggests countermeasures to protect patients and minimize liability exposures.
Epack 3 - Employment Practices Liability
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CNA’s Epack 3 Employment Practices Liability (EPL) insurance coverage helps shield businesses, business owners and employees against loss from claims alleging wrongful employment practices.
Potential Liability Issues Arising Under the AIA
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The America Invents Act (AIA) alters numerous laws affecting IP protection for a broad range of applicants and affects almost the entire range of prosecution activities. The AIA was intended to modernize the patent system and promote innovation job creation and economic growth.
Resident Selection: Screening Optimizes Placement Minimize Risk
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Comprehensive screening of residents assists in proper placement and creates a safe pleasant environment. An individual's strengths limitations social preferences and physical and mental status are factors to consider. Download to learn the processes for optimizing placement and minimizing risk.
Product Safety Culture
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Producing safe products should be embedded in a company’s culture and should involve everyone in the company.
This resource outlines the importance of compliance and safety efforts focused on federal requirements as of the date of this guide’s publication.
Protecting Workers Against Wildfire Smoke
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Wildfire smoke is a mixture of gases and fine particles from burning trees and other plant material that can be dangerous if inhaled. Smoke can irritate your eyes and respiratory system and worsen chronic heart and lung diseases.
Client Noncompliance: Checklist to Help Strengthen Communication
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This edition of Home Care Briefing addresses that clear communication and comprehensive and factual documentation are critical to minimizing noncompliance as well as limiting the impact of recalcitrant client behavior.
Staff Absenteeism
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This edition of Home Care Briefing reviews the importance of seamless transitions during staff absences and timely coverage arrangements.
Conflict of Interest Issues in Representing the Company/Employee
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Times arise particularly in litigation where a lawyer for an entity might find it useful to represent an employee or other constituent of the entity for some limited purpose. This dual representation of an entity and its constituent raises a number of practice issues.
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.
Ethical Marketing: Minimizing the Risks of False Advertising
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This Home Care Briefing® examines some of the legal and regulatory concepts governing healthcare advertising and offers basic guidelines for minimizing marketing-related risks.
BOOSTTM Max
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Walkway Management Group offers a nano-ceramic floor sealant designed to increase flooring lifespan, appearance, and anti-slip properties.
Air Conditioning Start up Maintenance Tips
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Property Maintenance of HVAC systems can ensure lower electrical consumption reduce repair costs and increase life span for air conditioning equipment.
How You Can Stay Ethical and Help Clients Communicate Effectively on Social Media During Disputes
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This edition of In Practice...with CNA addresses social media communications and the difficulties that come with social media practices during disputes.