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Risk Management involves activities to minimize the effects of loss on human, physical and financial resources and to promote patient safety by:

• Identifying potentially risky situations

• Preventing adverse events from happening

• Damage control for unexpected/bad outcomes

• Maintaining sound fiscal policies for paying for losses that occur

Ultimately, the goals of Risk Management are to

• Prevent harm to patients, staff and visitors

• Provide a safe health care environment

• Contribute to improving the quality of patient care

Risk Management is available to help you with

• Occurrence reporting issues

• Preparation for legal activities such as depositions, litigation, and subpoenas

• Policy, procedure, protocol, and guideline development, review, revision and interpretation

• Documentation/Form development and review

• Safe Medical Device Reporting

• Informed Consent issues

• Confidentiality issues

• Resolving complex patient management issues and implementing patient care agreements

• Educational in-services on Risk Management and liability topics

• State and federal regulatory  (EMTALA/COBRA, HIPAA, SMDA).

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