Healthcare Risk Management articles from August 2006

Healthcare Risk Management archives from August 2006

Special Report: Infant Abductions: Liability risk even though baby abducted at home.
August 1, 2006... Special Report: Infant Abductions Liability risk even though baby abducted at home The infant abduction in Lubbock, TX, didn't happen until the baby had been discharged and was at home with her mother, so what's the potential liability...

Special Report: Infant Abductions: Rider can help cover costs of infant abduction.(Book review)
August 1, 2006... Special Report: Infant Abductions Rider can help cover costs of infant abduction A special rider available on some insurance coverage could help cover the costs associated with an infant abduction at your facility. The coverage...

Engineers study design, hospital cuts falls 50%.
August 1, 2006... Engineers study design, hospital cuts falls 50% Outside engineers can give risk managers a fresh perspective on design and procedures that affect the likelihood of patients falling, according to a team that was able to reduce falls in one...

Data help show fall risk with design, assessments.(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Data help show fall risk with design, assessments When Our Lady of Lourdes in Pasco, WA, brought in outside engineers to give them a fresh perspective on reducing falls, the team came up with several solutions. Anita Kongslie, director of...

Critical birth drills help prepare staff.
August 1, 2006... Critical birth drills help prepare staff You probably conduct fire drills, evacuation drills, infant abduction drills, and mass casualty drills, but there is one more you might want to add to the schedule: critical birth drills to help...

How to conduct critical birth drills.
August 1, 2006... How to conduct critical birth drills This advice for conducting critical birth drills comes from Stanley Davis, MD, an OB-GYN specialist at Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis: *Realize that a critical birth drill is difficult to...

Effort to cut errors works better than expected.
August 1, 2006... Effort to cut errors works better than expected The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge, MA, announced recently that U.S. hospitals taking part in an 18-month effort to prevent 100,000 unnecessary deaths by dramatically...

JCAHO releases new goals, requires flu vaccine.(Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)
August 1, 2006... JCAHO releases new goals, requires flu vaccine The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has announced the 2007 National Patient Safety Goals, and major changes include extending a requirement that accredited...

Americans favor liability reform legislation.(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Americans favor liability reform legislation More than three-fifths of Americans surveyed by the Health Coalition on Liability and Access (HCLA) support passage of comprehensive medical liability reform legislation. And 76% of those...

Legal Review and Commentary: $826,000 verdict after tuberculosis remains undiagnosed and untreated for more than 6 months.(Disease/Disorder overview)
August 1, 2006... Legal Review and Commentary $826,000 verdict after tuberculosis remains undiagnosed and untreated for more than 6 months By Blake J. Delaney, Esq., Buchanan Ingersoll, Tampa, FL News: An elderly man suffering from a bloody cough...

Legal Review and Commentary: Overdose of aminophylline leads to $456,600 verdict.
August 1, 2006... Legal Review and Commentary Overdose of aminophylline leads to $456,600 verdict News: Upon the premature birth of a baby, a doctor recommended a dose of aminophylline to treat the brief pauses in the infant's breathing. However, nurses...

CE Objectives/Questions.
August 1, 2006... CE Objectives After reading this issue of Healthcare Risk Management, the CE participant should be able to: *Describe legal, clinical, financial, and managerial issues pertinent to risk management in health care. *Explain how...

Special Report: Infant Abductions: Infant abduction yields lessons and warnings for risk managers.
August 1, 2006... Special Report: Infant Abductions Infant abduction yields lessons and warnings for risk managers Some security measures worked, but woman posed as nurse (Editor's note: This month's Healthcare Risk Management includes special...

Special Report: Infant Abductions: Scrubs are difficult issue for newborn unit security.
August 1, 2006... Special Report: Infant Abductions Scrubs are difficult issue for newborn unit security Many hospitals have their newborn unit staff wear a distinctive scrubs color or other uniform so that it is easier to recognize that they are...