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Should Health Care Organizations Equate Risk with Compliance?
Will your organization follow the trend of combining them? Compliance officers – and the health care organizations where they work – are often confused about how – or even whether – risk management and compliance should work together. “Risk management”…
Continue reading...Quality Assurance: Does Your Hospital’s Peer Review Program Catch Unnecessary Surgeries & Procedures?
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Revamping this safety net protects patients and the hospital’s reputation and compliance record. Hospitals can sidestep a major patient safety and compliance nightmare: A physician who’s been doing procedures that clearly don’t meet established medical necessity criteria. That scenario occurred…
Continue reading...Hospital Risk Management: Head Off the Specter of Surgeons Performing Unneeded Procedures
Monday, March 22, 2010
4 strategies can help, including knowing these key warning signs. Talk about a PR and legal disaster: Media reports that a prominent cardiologist at a hospital may have implanted stents in patients who didn’t need them. That scenario continues to…
Continue reading...Keep Staff Up to Date on CPR, Physical Restraint Policies
Monday, January 4, 2010
5 risk management measures that health care providers can learn from one unlucky facility. One hospital had to learn the hard way — after a death in its behavioral health unit and a corrective action plan…
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Monday, May 10, 2010
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