Risk Managment

Americans With Disabilities and Punative Damage Dangers

When most of us think about someone with a disability, we realize that interacting with them may mean giving assistance that fully able-bodied patients don’t need. To that end, public facilities of all kinds are now wheelchair-accessible, for example. If a patient were blind, we might need to accommodate a service animal and/or guide the …

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Sideline Risk Potentials for M.D.s & Board Members

A recent case involving a county-run nursing home in New Jersey brings up an important potential risk for physicians. In that facility, the subcontracted administrator, an employee of Innova, had withheld status reports from the supervising Freeholder board members for at least six months. Innova’s administrator, John Rosolia, defended that the facility was newly added, …

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