MHA's Society for Risk Management

Legal Issues in Surgery – Risk & Patient Specific

On August 19, the Mississippi Hospital Association will host a webinar, Legal Issues in Surgery – Risk & Patient Specific, from noon until 1:30 p.m. This program is geared at helping reduce adverse events in surgery patients and to improve surgical outcomes. 

The webinar will describe the aspects of a required surgery checklist, explain the CMS and Joint Commission requirements (such as those for informed consent, history and physicals, and verbal orders), review the requirements of a post-anesthesia evaluation, and identify the common legal and risk management issues in surgery (such as documentation, policies and procedures, chain of command and unanticipated outcomes and disclosure). Sue Dill Calloway, MSN, JD, RN, Director of Hospital Patient Safety for The Doctors Company, will be the instructor.

The registration fee for this course is $155. Register online here. For more information, contact Karen Anding at (800) 289-8884 or kanding@mhanet.org.

Other webinars that may be of interest to you:

• Patient Falls: A Proactive Approach to Reducing Falls at your Hospital

Hospitals Step Up Fight. Will It Be Enough?

The drug-resistant bacterial infection MRSA has become so commonplace among the American populace in the last several years that most clinicians now diagnose and treat it as routinely as they do the flu. Still, tens of thousands of Americans with MRSA die each year, putting intense pressure on providers to do more.

Hospitals have instituted a multipronged approach. Certain strategies, like mandating and monitoring frequent hand washing by doctors and staff, are universally accepted, if not universally implemented. Others, such as testing all incoming patients, are much more controversial.

Read more from Julius A. Karash in Hospitals & Health Networks here.