Webinar – Addressing Top Risk Management and Patient Safety Challenges for Ambulatory Care Settings
- Date
- October 19, 2023
- Time
- 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time
- Audience
- CHI owner insured hospital and long-term care risk managers, patient safety officers, quality improvement, direct patient care providers, and clinical leadership.
Overview
Ensuring patient safety in the ambulatory care setting poses unique challenges for both providers and patients. This program will identify top clinical and patient safety risks for ambulatory care settings and outline practical strategies and best practices for mitigating these risks and providing safer patient care.
At the end of the webinar, the participant should be able to:
- Identify top organizational, patient safety, and malpractice risks in ambulatory care settings.
- Explore the relationship between risk management, patient safety, quality improvement, and compliance activities.
- Evaluate how a strong culture of safety can mitigate malpractice risk.
- Understand the importance of addressing health disparities and improving patient engagement to support patient safety and reduce risk.
- Learn systems-based strategies to improve risk management processes in ambulatory care settings.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number 12205 for 1 contact hours.
This meeting has been submitted for approval for 1 contact hour of Continuing Education Credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow) and towards CPHRM renewal.
Faculty
Carlye Hendershot, MSN, Senior Patient Safety and Risk Management Consultant, ECRI.
Carlye Hendershot is a senior patient safety and risk management consultant at ECRI, providing clinical risk and patient safety consultation and education for healthcare clients across ambulatory and acute health sectors. Carlye previously practiced as an RN and family nurse practitioner in a wide variety of clinical settings. She has also served as a nursing home surveyor; risk manager and patient safety consultant for a medical malpractice insurer; and in-house legal nurse consultant, where she collaborated with attorneys on medical malpractice defense and other healthcare-related compliance and litigation matters. Carlye has presented and written extensively on clinical risk management, medical-legal, and patient safety topics, with a particular passion for improving maternal health and safety and addressing healthcare disparities in ambulatory and primary healthcare settings.
Handouts
Addressing Top Risk Management and Patient Safety Challenges for Ambulatory Care Settings – Handout
Sign-In Sheet + Evaluation Form – Ambulatory Care Risks – 10.19.23
Electronic Webinar Evaluation and Attestation to Attendance
Web Access
Zoom connection information is auto-generated and emailed to the participant upon registration. Each participant has a unique link for connection.
Locations
Zoom connection information is auto-generated and emailed to the participant upon registration. Each participant has a unique link for connection.