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Helping Healthcare Organizations Prevent, Detect, and Remediate Sexual Harassment Allegations: Compass Clinical Consulting Launches New Service
It’s easy for healthcare leaders to believe that the presence of a sexual harassment policy and dedication of human resources office staff will prevent and mitigate any allegations, but policy isn’t enough. Hospitals and other healthcare organizations need an established, thoughtful procedure for the prevention, detection, and remediation of allegations.
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Sexual Harassment in the Healthcare Setting
Sexual Harassment in the Healthcare Setting: How to prevent, detect and remediate sexual harassment issues before they ruin your organizations’ reputation and drain critical financial resources.
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How Healthcare Leaders Refuse to Tolerate Sexual Harassment
Ideally, everyone could go to work without having to worry about harassment. But since this isn’t an ideal world, healthcare organizations must get proactive about preventing, investigating, and resolving sexual harassment claims and violations.
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Understanding and Identifying Immediate Jeopardy Situations
What is Immediate Jeopardy? What are the primary goals of Immediate Jeopardy Guidelines? Who do the Immediate Jeopardy Guidelines apply to? Does Harm have to occur before considering Immediate Jeopardy? What are ‘triggers” for Immediate Jeopardy situations? What are components of an Immediate Jeopardy situation? What are questions to ask to determine if an Immediate Jeopardy situation exists?
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Harassment in Healthcare: Thoughtful Leaders Take a Proactive Approach
Kate Fenner, RN, PhD, Managing Director of Compass Clinical Consulting, was recently featured in HCPro’s Nurse Leader Insider and in HealthLeaders Media discussing the importance of healthcare organizations taking a proactive stance on preventing, investigating, and...
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The Joint Commission Changes their Final Accreditation Report Format
The Joint Commission (TJC) revamped their final accreditation survey report format for all accreditation surveys and certification reviews conducted after January 1, 2018. Working with customers, and field and central office staff, TJC addressed clients’ requests to...
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A Surgery Center’s Transformation: From Facing CMS Closure to Achieving Compliance and Sustainable Practices
An outpatient surgery center faced closure by CMS due to deficiencies. Compass was contacted to assist with response and recovery efforts.
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Kate Fenner to Present at Precision Medicine Summit for Hospital CEOs
Kate Fenner, RN, PhD, Managing Director, Compass, will present at Precision Medicine for Hospital CEOs: What You Need to Know about Genetic Testing, Precision Medicine, and Population Health Management, an intensive one-day summit for CEOs and administrators of health systems and hospitals on February 21, 2018.
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Stabilizing the Department and Improving Communication with Interim Surgical Services Director
The OR at one 318-bed community hospital in the Mid-Atlantic was experiencing turmoil which led them to contract Compass Clinical Consulting for assistance. Unstable leadership and employee turnover had led to low morale, confusion about responsibilities, and multiple efficiency issues…
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CMS Prohibits Texting Patient Orders
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a memo December 28, 2017 confirming its stance on text message orders. Effective immediately, texting patient orders among physicians or healthcare providers is prohibited. CMS’ stance prohibiting text message...
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