It is important for hospitals and health systems to evaluate their own obstetrical risks.

If your medical group or hospital creates, maintains, receives, or transmits electronic protected health information (e-PHI), a risk analysis is a mandatory step towards HIPAA compliance.

Obstetrics is a high-risk specialty in which emergencies are, to some extent, inevitable. Giving providers the opportunity to “work out the kinks” through simulation exercises and mock drills, is one of the greatest gifts we can give our staff and our patients.

Leadership Rounding provides senior executives with the opportunity to connect with front-line staff to discuss patient safety issues and generate ideas to continue quality improvement.

If ever there was a conundrum, the post-hospitalization discharge, with its often intricate and difficult problems, is one.