While Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has traditionally been a focus for large hospitals and health systems, many ERM strategies can be effectively...
Category - Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
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...
Informed consent can be a confusing concept. In addition to different
components of consent to understand,
there are regulatory, state and federal mandates...
Hospitals and health care employers often rely exclusively on injury data, patient falls and OSHA logs for decision making on safe patient handling...
Research supports the assumption that animals have a positive effect on people including hospitalized patients. But not all people are animal friendly and not...
Events of the past decade have changed how Americans view safety and security. While physician offices and ambulatory medical facilities won’t require the...
Great food, blue jeans, cowboy boots and live honky-tonk music. My October ASHRM 2018 Annual Conference experience in Nashville was exceptional. Friendly...
Breaking up with difficult patients is a hot topic for health care providers. Having a properly structured termination process for the ambulatory/physician...