This presentation will teach you to recognize how the routine practices and systems in your office may put you at risk. It will provide practical tools and strategies aimed at mitigating risk in your office. Even minor changes in this area can ultimately increase patient safety and satisfaction.

The Joint Commission estimates that 70 percent of sentinel events include communication breakdowns as one of the root causes of preventable patient injury. When we review our closed claims, we see, but for the communication failure, the patient injury would never have occurred.

The Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. (CAP) is proud to partner with the Sierra Sacramento Valley and the Placer-Nevada County Medical Societies in hosting an Anesthesia Risk Management CME dinner program to physicians – at no cost or obligation. This interactive and informative ninety-minute program offers practical tips to help and provide anesthesiologists additional tools in order to increase patient safety and reduce claims. Attendees will learn objectives through the presentation of case studies and statistical data.

The California Court of Appeal has ruled that a psychologist who failed to appear for a licensing board-ordered psychiatric exam has no grounds to challenge the subsequent suspension of his license.

In the coming year, the Risk Management and Patient Safety Department will continue mining data from a variety of sources: CAP closed claims, hotline calls, CAPCares calls, and practice survey data. Our goal is to identify trends, vulnerabilities, and emerging concerns or new issues that impact a physician’s practice. This article will provide a brief summary of findings from the 2017 General Surgery – Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy study.