Swamped with subpoenas and drowning in discovery? A solid relationship between the risk management team and defense counsel may smooth the way.
If dealing...
Category - Legal & Regulatory
Health care providers and organizations often struggle with using
chaperones. Conversations revolve around issues of duty, choice, safety,
budgetary...
Informed consent can be a confusing concept. In addition to different
components of consent to understand,
there are regulatory, state and federal mandates...
Research supports the assumption that animals have a positive effect on people including hospitalized patients. But not all people are animal friendly and not...
Most states have Do-Not- Resuscitate laws. However there are different requirements from state to state and not all DNR orders are honored between states. For...
As electronic health records (EHRs) become the universal form of documenting patient care, also comes the pressures and requirements to maintain the records in...
A fundamental right of modern healthcare is that a patient can refuse medical treatment (1). In most circumstances, this extends to a parent’s right to...
Patient complaints range from minor, easily resolved at the point-of-care, to major, also known by CMS as grievances (CMS, 2016). One thing they all have in...
Video production is increasing at an exponential rate. Once mainly the domain of television, video footage can now be seen on websites, tablets, phones and an...
More and more patients are using healthcare reviews and social media such as Healthgrades, Vitals, RateMDs, Yelp, Google + and Facebook to choose healthcare...