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Alert: Healthcare Risk Management now awards AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, but please be aware that the January and February 2018 issues do not offer that particular credit. Subscribers can still earn credits from more current issues or by rereading past issues that offer credit and taking the online test with a passing score.

Healthcare Risk Management is written about legal and patient safety issues for healthcare risk managers, lawyers, physicians, and other clinicians and managers. With verdicts growing higher and malpractice premiums increasing, this venerable newsletter, staffed with several national risk management leaders, helps you avoid lawsuits at your facility.

In addition to the concise, 12-page monthly newsletter, you’ll receive the four-page Legal Review & Commentary, a monthly supplement with legal analysis of two recent cases involving hospitals and physicians.You’ll also receive a quarterly HIPAA Regulatory Alert so you can stay in compliance. Click here to see all recently published issues/articles from Healthcare Risk Management.

Healthcare Risk Management Covers:

• Specific tips for improving patient safety      
• Recent developments in patient confidentiality and privacy
• Advice on how to conduct a root-cause analysis
• Tips on how to reduce incidents such as patient falls
• Information on what must be included in informed consent
• And much more...

Click here to see all recently published issues/articles from Healthcare Risk Management.

 

Benefits of Subscribing to Healthcare Risk Management Include:

• 12 Monthly Issues
• 18 Nursing Continuing Education Credits & AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^™ annually
• Monthly Legal Review and Commentary supplement
• Million-dollar Lessons From Legal Cases
• Free Resources and Sources’ Contact Information Listed

Awards:

• 2015, Specialized Information Publishers Association (SIPA), first place, Best Health Care/Nutrition/Fitness or Analytical Reporting
• Three-time winner of Best Analytical or Interpretive Reporting, from SIPA
• Two-time winner of Sigma Delta Chi award for excellence in journalism, from Society of Professional Journalists
• Two-time Harrison L. Rogers Jr., MD, Award of Excellence in Medical Journalism
• Jesse H. Neal Award finalist from the Association of Business Information and Media companies

Faculty:

Physician Reviewer:

Arnold Mackles, MD, MBA, LHRM
President
Innovative Healthcare Compliance Group
Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Nurse Planner:

Maureen Archambault, RN, MBA, HRM, CPHRM
Senior Vice President, Chief Risk Officer
Prospect Medical Holdings
Los Angeles

Editorial Advisory Board:

Leilani Kicklighter, RN, ARM, MBA, CPHRM, LHRM
Patient Safety & Risk Management Consultant
The Kicklighter Group
Tamarac, FL

John C. Metcalfe, JD, FASHRM, VP
Risk and Insurance Management Services
MemorialCare Health System
Fountain Valley, CA

William J. Naber, MD, JD, CHC
Medical Director, UR/CM/CDI
Medical Center & West Chester Hospital
Physician Liaison
UC Physicians Compliance Department, Associate Professor
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati

Grena Porto, RN, ARM, CPHRM
Vice President, Risk Management
ESIS ProCLaim Practice Leader, HealthCare
ESIS Health, Safety and Environmental
Hockessin, DE

Stephen Trosty, JD, MHA, CPHRM, ARM
Risk Management Consultant, Patient Safety Consultant
Haslett, MI

Michael Zuckerman, JD, MBA
Assistant Professor, Academic Director, Master of Science
Risk Management & Insurance
Department of Risk, Insurance & Healthcare Management
Fox School of Business and Management
Temple University
Philadelphia

Objectives:

• Describe the legal, clinical, financial, and managerial issues pertinent to risk management;
• Explain the effect of risk management issues on patients, physicians, nurses, legal counsel, and management;
• Identify solutions to risk management problems in healthcare for hospital personnel to use in overcoming the challenges they encounter in daily practice.

Target Audience:

This education activity is intended for healthcare risk managers, healthcare lawyers, physicians, and other managers and clinicians who work in hospitals and other healthcare settings.

Accreditation and Credit Designation:

Relias LLC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Relias LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and 1.5 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour (18 per year).

Relias LLC is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Contact hours [1.5] will be awarded to participants who meet the criteria for successful completion. California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider CEP#13791.

Expiration:

This activity in effect for 36 months after the date of publication.

Instructions For Participation:

Physicians and nurses participate in this CME/CE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they've learned. They must score 100 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. Once that is submitted, they will receive their credit letter. Twice yearly after the test, their browser will be directed to an activity evaluation form, which must be completed to receive their credit letter.