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Documentation About Patient Safety, Not Just Litigation
Clinicians should be reminded that proper documentation is not only about providing a legal defense.
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Avoid Spoiling Documentation with Most Common Errors
Documentation is such a crucial part of risk management that there can never be enough emphasis on how to properly document and how to avoid ruining the value of clinical records if they are ever used in legal matters. Constant education for clinicians is the only way to keep documentation clear and effective.
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Compliance Outlook Finds Challenges in 2025
Healthcare compliance risk managers should brace for substantial compliance challenges in 2025.
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Hospital Improves Responses to Adverse Events and Near Misses
An Illinois hospital has improved patient safety by implementing a program that encourages reporting of adverse events and near misses. The hospital also encourages staff to report positive experiences that affect the culture of safety and promotes those stories.
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Lawsuit Claims Hospital Kept Patient Alive to Boost Metrics
A New Jersey hospital and a medical team are facing a medical malpractice lawsuit from the family of a man who says they kept the brain-damaged patient alive for a year to boost the hospital’s metric on survival after heart transplant.
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Profits Before Patients, Betrayal of Trust
The facts of the medical care that supposedly led to a New Jersey patient named Darryl Young’s brain damage and death are still to be determined, but the hospital’s behavior after the transplant was “outrageous.”
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Hospital Reduces Patient Falls by 80%
AdventHealth in Tampa Bay, FL, successfully reduced patient falls by 80% through predictive modeling, enhanced education, and a strong culture of continuous improvement and zero harm. The risk manager says other hospitals can learn from the experience and implement strategies to seek the same results.
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TJC Issues Sentinel Event Alert on Responding to Severe Weather Incidents
On the heels of recent hurricanes and other severe weather, The Joint Commission has issued a Sentinel Event Alert, “Environmental disasters: Preparing to safely evacuate or shelter in place.” The alert outlines steps for healthcare organizations to consider as they prepare for weather and climate-related disasters, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods, and extreme heat.
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HHS Drops Appeal on Website Tracking, but Some of Rule Still Applies
Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced that it will not appeal its unfavorable court decision in American Hospital Association v. Becerra, in which the American Hospital Association and other groups sued HHS to bar enforcement of a new rule adopted in guidance by the Office for Civil Rights titled “Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA-Covered Entities and Business Associates.”
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Leapfrog’s Latest Hospital Report Shows Improvement
The most recent Hospital Safety Grades from The Leapfrog Group, an independent nonprofit focused on patient safety, show improvement in key areas. The fall 2024 report evaluated nearly 3,000 hospitals on their ability to prevent medical errors, accidents and infections.