Risk Management in Health Care Institutions: Limiting Liability and Enhancing Care / Edition 3

by Florence Kavaler, Raymond S. Alexander

Overview

This text serves as a primer for risk management professionals. It covers basic concepts of risk management, employment practices, and general risk management strategies. It also goes over specific risk areas including medical malpractice, strategies to reduce liability, managing positions and litigation alternatives. It includes an emphasis on outpatient medicine and the risks associated with electronic medical records. This new edition covers academic medical settings and the impact on healthcare delivery, ambulatory and outpatient surgery, and office based surgery (OBS). Each and every chapter will be updated, and more emphasis will be placed on electronic medical records including security and encryption issues. New chapters cover Risk Management for Infection Control Programs, Telemedicine, Risk Management in Ambulatory Care Settings, and Risk Management in Office-Based Surgery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449645656
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	09/19/2012
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	534
Sales rank:	228,050
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Dr. Kavaler was formerly Assistant Surgeon General {Rear Admiral}, Director of the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Staten Island , New York; Study Director, Milbank Memorial Fund Commission for the Study Higher Education for Public Health; and Assistant Commissioner for Health and Medical Insurance Programs, NYC Department of Health. She serves in various Medcial Director positions at CapitolCare [Blue Cross HMO-Washington, DC], SANUS in NY and NJ[ New York Life HMO], MetLife HMO in NY [Metropolitan Life Insurance Company]. She is a member of the NYS Health Department Board for Professional Medical Conduct, and former Chair of the NYS Education Department Board for Medicine and continues to serve. Dr. Kavaler earned a BA from Barnard College, and MD from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and MS in Biostatistics and MPH from Columbia School of Public Health. She is a Diplomate [CHCQM] of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians; held a license as a nursing home administrator [NY], and a license as a health care risk manager[Fla]. Dr. Kavaler was formerly President, Institute of Medical Law,Inc. a seminar company, and President , Medical Network Managers,Inc. a healthcare consulting firm.Her consultation skills capitalize on extensive experience in public policy, hospital administration, ambulatory care services, health insurance HMOs, long term care, and malpractice analysis. Dr. Kavaler is a respected educator and funded researcher and is well published. Her articles address areas of medical care evaluation in multiple settings, administrative public policy dynamics, and research activities in drug addiction, foster-child health care, hospital cost control, aging ,public health and history of medicine.Recent books include Computers in Medical Administration; Higher Education for Public Health;Foster-Child Health Care; Cost Containment and DRGs:A Guide to Prospective Payment.

Raymond S. Alexander is the founder and Principal in the firm of Alexander, Wollman, & Stark, a healthcare consulting and search firm based in Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Alexander has spent the majority of his career in hospital administration, having served as the CEO of Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as well as administrative positions at Beth Israel Medical Center and Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, and most recently held the position as the President and CEO of Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. He was one of the founders of a consortium of hospitals that later became Premier Alliance. During the course of his career, Mr. Alexander served as Assistant Commissioner for Health and Medical Insurance Programs for the New York City Department of Health. He was also a member of the Governor’s Health Policy Task force in Wisconsin, and was Vice Chairman of the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania and then served as Chairman Elect. He has been the past chairman of the Board of the Martin’s Run Life Care Community and continues to serve on the Board of Directors. He has published 36 articles in areas of management and public health and has taught at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Columbia University, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Public Health Association. Mr. Alexander holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s in Business Administration from Dartmouth College and a Master’s degree in in Hospital Administration from the Columbia University. Current clients include academic medical centers and teaching hospitals throughout the Unit ed States.

Table of Contents

Part I Risk Management Administrative Issue s
Chapter 1 Risk Management Dynamics
Chapter 2 Regulatory Environment
Chapter 3 Risk Management in Employment
Chapter 4 Communication to Reduce Risk
Chapter 5 Financing Risk
Chapter 6 Ethical Issue s for Risk Managers
Chapter 7 Assuring Safety and Security in Health Care Institutions
Part II Managing Risks in Clinical Services
Chapter 8 Patient Safety Tools: Integrating Quality and Managing Risk
Chapter 9 Medical Malpractice
Chapter 10 Strategies to Reduce Liability
Chapter 11 High Risk Areas
Chapter 12 Risk Management for Infection Control Programs
Chapter 13 Risk Management in Psychiatry
Chapter 14 Telemedicine
Part III Managing Risks in Other Health Care Venues
Chapter 15 Risk Management in Ambulatory Care Settings
Chapter 16 Risk Management in Long Term Care Institutions and Services
Chapter 17 Risk Management in Office-Based Surgery

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Robin T Reesal, MD (Southwest Behavioral Health Services)
Description: This update of a book last published 10 years ago preserves a similar style and approach, but broadens and modernizes the content.
Purpose: The book achieves its purpose of enlightening readers on the multiple aspects of institutional risk management by providing evidence-based details meant to withstand medical and legal scrutiny, while emphasizing a theme of quality and safety.
Audience: The authors intend the book primarily for leaders of healthcare institutions, but it is an excellent reference for healthcare providers with administrative or clinical responsibilities. Both authors are outstanding experts in their field who gather a host of exceptionally knowledgeable contributors for specific topics.
Features: The book is well organized and logically laid out. Its three major parts cover administrative issues, clinical services, and outpatient specialty areas such as ambulatory, long-term, and surgical care. Presenting eye-catching, evidence-based information such as the occurrence of about a million medical errors per year emphasizes the importance of risk management and the need for improved patient care. The clinical section includes general principles of quality management and medical malpractice. There is a blend of information from such areas as private sector models, management techniques, quality assurance, evaluation systems, and practice guidelines. There is also a specific focus on many high-risk, hospital-based clinical areas such as emergency medicine, neonatology, surgery, and diagnostic imaging. Infection control, psychiatry, and telemedicine pose unique problems and are assigned their own chapters. The many faces of electronic health records are seen throughout the book. The all important topic of communication is nicely broken down in chapter 4 with valuable suggestions. True to the comprehensive nature of this book, it gives space to financial and employment risk factors. This book gains extra strength and momentum by including up-to-date information on the Affordable Care Act, Accountable Care Organizations, and Hospital Engagement Networks. There are a limited number of figures and tables, none in color, but the case vignettes and facts presented in grey boxes add verbal color and lead to a better understanding of chapter content. This book does an exceptional job of providing details, references, and meaningful facts for decision makers in risk management.
Assessment: Healthcare professionals, especially those in upper management, will find this evidence-based book easy to use because it is well organized and logical. The information is detailed, to the point, and relevant. The credibility of the references and the authors provides a strong basis for decision-making that can withstand legal scrutiny. The book is an invaluable tool to enhance quality and safety.

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