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Falls research led by Michelle Feil, MSN, RN, senior patient safety analyst with the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority in Harrisburg, found that these six program design elements were associated with successful patient sitter programs:
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In her lawsuit against Prime Health System (PHS), risk manager Karin Berntsen claims that she witnessed leaders at Alvarado Hospital in San Diego encouraging Medicare fraud.
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) might prompt increases in medical malpractice liability insurance. Other types of insurance could become more expensive.
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Boston Childrens Hospital was hit with a series of cyber attacks that tried but failed to take down its website, officials told the The Boston Globe.
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There are some instances in which healthcare managers must protect themselves, even if means blowing the whistle on your employer, says Josh Hyatt, MHL, CPHRM, senior risk management specialist with NORCAL Mutual Insurance in San Diego.
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All Childrens Hospital, Pediatric Physician Services (PPS), and All Childrens Health System in St. Petersburg, FL, have settled a whistleblower lawsuit brought under the False Claims Act for $7 million.
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In this prospective cohort study, women who used the copper IUD for emergency contraception had lower unintended pregnancy rates in the following 12 months compared to women who chose the oral levonorgestrel pill.
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In a large population of older community-dwelling women, there was a strong association between limited motor and balance skills and urge incontinence.
