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This edition of Vantage Point® list common types of acquired infections and discusses the four cornerstones of an effective infection control program.
This edition of In Practice... with CNA® discusses how dabbling in new areas of law can help expand your practice, but also increase risk for disciplinary and legal malpractice complaints if not prepared.
Product Quality Supply Chain Tips for Success
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Companies use various strategies to execute a supply chain control plan. Internally managing the plan allows for continuous monitoring, making adjustments and implementing improvements.
Cyber Risk Solutions
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Anchored by more than 20 years of cyber coverage expertise, our solutions are designed for companies with two or more years of operating history.
Ethical Marketing: Minimizing the Risks of False Advertising
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This Home Care Briefing® examines some of the legal and regulatory concepts governing healthcare advertising and offers basic guidelines for minimizing marketing-related risks.
Ridesharing Services: Healthcare Risk Management Perspective
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This edition of AlertBulletin examines ridesharing related risks within the healthcare context and offers guidelines to help ensure that patients and aging services facility residents are transported in a safe reliable manner.
Supply Chain Risk Management
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Understanding and analyzing your supply chain's strengths and vulnerabilities are vital components of business continuity management.
Home Healthcare Hazards: Reducing Exposure
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This edition of Home Care Briefing examines the home healthcare hazards compromise client care and subject workers to more frequent and severe injuries as compared to other providers who work in more controlled healthcare settings.
Off-label Product Use: Basic Risk Management Considerations
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This edition of inBrief suggests a range of risk management considerations and strategies relating to off-label use of FDA-approved products.
Urgent Care: Five Essential Strategies to Minimize Common Risks
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This issue of inBrief® reviews the customary scope of urgent care services and offers risk management strategies designed to prevent or mitigate clinical lapses that may result in patient injury and consequent litigation.
A Bad Economy Increases Risks for Lawyers
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Professional Counsel addresses that law firms must remember the fiduciary duties owed to clients, the ethical duties imposed upon them by the Rules of Professional Conduct, and best practices for avoiding claims.
Risk Management Strategies for the Physicians Office
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This resource discusses the ERM model which represents a continuous process applied across the medical practice and influenced by staff conduct at every level.
Wandering and Elopement: Assessing and Addressing the Risks
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In this edition of Carefully Speaking : Wandering and elopement are among the most serious and costly hazards for aging services organizations.
Fall Pocket Guide: Risk and Defensibility
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This guide is designed to encourage a proactive, systemic approach to enhancing resident safety by minimizing the likelihood of resident falls and mitigating their consequences.
Risk Management Strategies for Athletic Trainers
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This resource presents an examination and discussion of current and emerging liability exposures confronting athletic training professionals.
Telemedicine: Risk Management Issues Strategies and Resources
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This edition of Healthcare Perspective outlines strategies designed to enhance clinical operational and technical processes associated with the provision of telemedicine/telehealth (TMH).
Enhancing Floor Safety: Slip Resistance Maintenance & Risk
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Slips and falls can happen anywhere. Whether it's a visitor customer or your employee what matters most is that you implement a prevention program to increase safety and reduce liability exposures.
Record Retention Policies: Evaluating Compliance Mitigating Risk
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This issue of InBrief explores record retention policies. Formal record retention policies and procedures demonstrate a systematic and organized approach to information storage. In addition they can help enhance compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
Behavioral Health Patients: A Risk Management Overview
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This edition of Vantage Point® offers practical strategies designed to strengthen behavioral patient screening and assessment management of psychiatric patients in the ED, inpatient management of comorbidities, environmental safety and patient discharge.
Resident Falls: A Collaborative Strategy for Risk Mitigation
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A summary of common fall-related allegations and preventive measures. An effective fall- and fracture-reduction program can help curb the rise in claim severity.
Contractual Risks: Understanding Indemnification and Subrogation
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Via third-party contracts many healthcare organizations outsource a wide range of clinical, technical and administrative functions.
Patient Noncompliance: Better Communication Means Lower Risk
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Patient noncompliance including missed appointments cancelled procedures rejection of prescribed therapies frequent changing of providers and unbought or unused medications can contribute to patient injury in every type of healthcare setting.
By continuously monitoring vital signs, motion patterns and environmental conditions, wearable devices provide early warning signals, facilitate emergency response and support post-incident analysis for preventive measures.
Electronic Healthcare Records: Maximize Benefits Minimize Risks
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Electronic healthcare records (EHRs) have revolutionized the practice of medicine creating the potential for significant improvements in patient safety clinical teamwork and operational efficiency.
Telemedicine: A Brief Guide to the Emerging Risks of Remote Care
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Telemedicine is one aspect of the broader practice of telehealth which encompasses a range of clinical services.
Independent Living: Major Risk Factors Effective Interventions
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This Alert Bulletin highlights critical issues facing independent living including increasing acuity levels and care needs as well as allegations of wrongful placement and retention.
Risk Management Self-Assessment Checklist for Pharmacists
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This checklist is designed to assist pharmacists and other pharmacy professionals in evaluating and modifying their current customs and practices.
Ergonomics Consulting Services
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Our team has the capabilities to serve as a resource for program development and provide collaborative consultation to develop effective solutions that address ergonomics risks.
Virtual Capabilities and Digital Solutions
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Maximizing flexibility and convenience for policyholders, our innovative virtual resources can help insureds save time and mitigate risk by identifying and addressing hidden exposures.
Even if an employer can mandate and provide COVID-19 vaccinations, the more important question may be whether an employer should do so.
Waste and Linen Chute Protection
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The following tips can help keep your chute safe and reduce risk.
Damage Prevention Guidelines: Excavation Procedures
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Learn risk mitigating excavation procedures for underground facilities.
Elderly Patients: Reduce Injury Risk by Enhancing Geriatric Care
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This edition of Vantage Point® presents claim data on the frequency, severity and financial impact of injuries to elderly inpatients.
Docking Inland River Barges at Terminals
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This guide provides information on how to mitigate risk at river terminals.
Improving Work Conditions and Safety in the Roofing Industry
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This guide provides an overview of high-injury risk exposures and challenges related to process efficiency and discusses potential solutions.
AlertBulletin: Antibiotic Overuse Stewardship Program
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This AlertBulletin offers strategies designed to prevent antibiotic overuse training and a formal program to reduce risk.
Vegetation Management
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This guide provides valuable risk management recommendations to help ensure proper and safe use of vegetation management chemicals.
If lawyers seek to continue to practice law they must devote time and resources to instituting sound banking and trust accounting procedures and supervising the parties entrusted with the authority to handle client funds.
Sepsis Management: Five Strategies to Save Lives and Reduce Risk
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In this edition of Vantage Point : Sepsis and septic shock are serious secondary consequences of infection in which a toxic response by the body affects tissue integrity and organ function (and blood pressure in the case of septic shock).
Water Damage Incident Response Guide
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Responding to water damage incidents is similar – every minute of delay increases the risk of property damage and an extended business disruption
Resident Patient Handling: Creating Effective Safety Program
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This edition of AlertBulletin® examines the issue of manual lifting and handling techniques are a major source of risk for healthcare organizations.
Short Service Employee
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An organization’s growth is an achievement in many ways, and companies should be aware of the potential risks to their operations and employees caused by growth.
Violence Prevention in a Home Healthcare
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This edition of Home Care Briefing reviews violence prevention in the home healthcare setting as well as risk management recommendations to mitigate risks.
National Accounts Brochure
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At CNA, our national Accounts team reviews each large business' specific needs and develops customized risk management and insurance solutions with meaningful capacity across Property, Casualty and Financial Lines of business.
This edition of Home Care Briefing examines three core elements of a home care fall-reduction program: risk assessment staff education and post-incident response.
Nonphysician Providers: A Guide to Safer Delegation
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This edition of Vantage Point offers strategies to help administrators and providers accomplish goals to help minimize associated liability risk exposure.
Ergonomics Solutions for the Construction Trades
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Injury risk is managed proactively when work is designed with considerations for efficiency and employee capabilities. This results in a larger percentage of the workforce performing work tasks safely.
COVID-19 Vaccination Program Planning Resource
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This Special Resource serves as a reference for healthcare organizations seeking to evaluate risk exposures associated with COVID-19.
Equipment and Systems Outage
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Here are some tips to help your business reduce the risk of equipment problems at every stage: before an outage, during the outage and as you restore operations afterward.
Wire Transfer Fraud: A Growing Threat to Law Firms
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Lawyers in any area of practice may fall victim to wire transfer fraud and must often serve as their own risk managers in managing their professional practices.