With incidents of depression increased by the pandemic, it
is even more important than ever that risk managers working with physician
practices and perinatal...
Category - Behavioral Health
In health care organizations and physician practices, dynamic relationship issues and concerns among family members and their physicians often provide an...
Health care providers and organizations often struggle with using
chaperones. Conversations revolve around issues of duty, choice, safety,
budgetary...
Threats and acts of violence have continued to escalate in
health care organizations and physician practices across the nation[i].
The following are...
Research supports the assumption that animals have a positive effect on people including hospitalized patients. But not all people are animal friendly and not...
Some seem to believe that physicians, although human, are part of some master race – one that soldiers on battling their own disease, death and a cadre of...
In working with patients, their families and visitors, at some point we all encounter someone who is angry, hostile or frustrated. Conflict is inevitable and...
It is often said that bullying behavior has no place in schools or in the work setting. Actually, bullying doesn’t fit in anywhere. There should be no...
An ordinary day at a physician practice in Birmingham, Alabama suddenly turns dramatic. A patient at the front desk is demanding to see the doctor. When he is...
Emergency departments have rapidly become the primary care providers for persons with behavioral health or substance abuse disorders. The 2011 Healthcare Cost...