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Jay Wolfson, DrPH, JD, professor of health care law, finance, and policy at the Colleges of Public Health and Medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa, offers this advice on how to counter not-for-profit lawsuits and avoid becoming a target for similar allegations.
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Some hospitals targeted by the spate of lawsuits against charity health care providers are fighting back, and one hospital executive tells Healthcare Risk Management that he expects the legal brouhaha to die out soon without any major payouts.
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Patient-controlled analgesia is a well-accepted method of delivering pain relief, but JCAHO is warning that well-intended family members and caregivers may be putting patients at risk by becoming involved in administering patient-controlled analgesia.
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A back door or any door not within sight of your staff and intended for the public to use always poses a risk, says the president of the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety in Glendale Heights, IL.
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A patient successfully underwent aortic value replacement surgery; however, it had the adverse side effects of causing her to lose her sight and sustain a hand injury. Two years later, the surgery was unsuccessfully repeated and the patient died. The family brought suit against the hospital and doctors alleging malpractice and
the failure to obtain informed consent.
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A survey of providers, health plans, patient representatives, and others conducted by Congress General Accounting Office found providers and health plans believe that implementation of the HIPAA privacy rule went more smoothly than expected in its first year,
but that two provisions of the rule are unnecessarily burdensome.
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What used to be a fairly routine occurrence for many health care providers supplying copies of patient medical records on request is becoming a major issue under HIPAA because of questions about how much can be charged for a copy of the record and the service under the HIPAA privacy rule and various state laws.
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How would you like to increase occurrence reporting by 134% while improving patient safety and communication among your staff? If that sounds good, the Safe Passage Program, developed by Clarian Health Partners in Indianapolis, might be for you.
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Not-for-profit hospitals are a natural target for allegations that they are failing to serve the indigent community, and the latest lawsuits targeting them are not likely to be the last, according to an expert in health care law.
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Taking the idea of full disclosure to another level, a Seattle hospital has posted a public apology to the victim of a medical error with apparently no regard to how that may affect the inevitable lawsuit from the family.
