Prioritizing Patient Safety
Prioritizing Patient Safety
Are you ready for Enterprise Risk Management? Do you have a clear risk management and roadmap for moving to a Enterprise Risk Management model?
Interim Leadership Leaders- Daily Rate and Threshold rules could require overtime compensation- Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt Decision
How will this affect highly paid interim employees in healthcare that are paid in their contract a “daily rate” under a threshold rule of entering the work premises? Interim agency agreements, contract administrators, and attorneys must consider this new risk for healthcare providers.
Negligent hiring or retention: is your organization at risk?
Healthcare organizations can be held liable for hiring agencies to provide healthcare professionals or for contracting independent contractors who are not qualified or competent to perform their duties, have past histories that would preclude them from being hired by other organizations, or have fraudulent education or impersonation of a licensed professional. Although the hiring company may vet the potential new hire, it is the final duty of the healthcare organization to validate the information obtained from the agencies or third-party vendors to show due diligence as they would for any permanent hire.
Are You at Risk for Wage and Hour Violations?
Is your compliance up-to-date with wage and hour laws? Do you realize that you may be liable for outside agency labor services? We address some of the potential risks in our ARM FOR SUCCESS Expert Corner.
2005 Patient Safety Act Privilege: What is the law?
2005 Patient Safety Act Privilege:
The Patient Safety Act of 2005 establishes a legal privilege for certain patient safety information. Under the Act, patient safety work product is defined as any data, reports, records, memoranda, or analyses that identify or constitute the deliberations or analysis of patient safety events and that are assembled or developed by a provider for reporting to a patient safety organization (42 U.S.C. § 299b-21(7)(A)).