A sound pre-admission screening process is critical to minimizing liability associated with improper resident placement and retention decisions.

This edition of Vantage Point^® addresses several central questions to help the reader understand why medical and clinical errors persist.

The COVID-19 pandemic, the worst infectious disease outbreak in a century, has been an especially traumatic event for aging services organizations. The crisis seems to be receding, but its psychological effects linger.

This edition of Home Care Briefing addresses that clear communication and comprehensive and factual documentation are critical to minimizing noncompliance as well as limiting the impact of recalcitrant client behavior.

The ongoing national mental health crisis is characterized by too few inpatient beds and overtaxed outpatient facilities. In fact under the present delivery system it is estimated that more than half a million individuals with serious mental illness do not receive the care they need.

This guide is designed to encourage a proactive, systemic approach to enhancing resident safety by minimizing the likelihood of resident falls and mitigating their consequences.

This edition of inBrief® offers a checklist designed to help ASCs achieve safe, seamless transitions in care by focusing on such key areas as staffing, training and communication.

This checklist is designed to assist pharmacists and other pharmacy professionals in evaluating and modifying their current customs and practices.

In collaboration with our partners at Nurses Service Organization (NSO) we at CNA insure over 26000 nurse practitioners (NPs) in a wide variety of settings. We are pleased to present our fourth nurse practitioner closed claim report.

This AlertBulletin^® is intended to help reduce risk for those organizations engaged in wound photography by standardizing their digital imaging practices.

This edition of AlertBulletin® reviews the practical implications of the final rule and suggests additional risk management safeguards.

This month's Carefully Speaking® outlines strategies that can help administrators enhance quality of care, reduce liability exposure, and help mental health residents achieve a more secure and stable existence.

This edition of AlertBulletin suggests a variety of proactive measures designed to help organizations achieve a safe a smooth transition during a merger or closure.

This Alert Bulletin highlights critical issues facing independent living including increasing acuity levels and care needs as well as allegations of wrongful placement and retention.

Maintaining a clean safe and healthful environment is one of the major challenges facing all aging services settings. This fact has become even more clear in the wake of the coronavirus crisis which has had a disproportionate impact upon senior communities and the elderly in general.

In this edition of Carefully Speaking : Wandering and elopement are among the most serious and costly hazards for aging services organizations.

This edition of AlertBulletin is intended to help reduce risk by standardizing their wound photography practice.

This edition of Home Care Briefing examines the elements of a prospective client screening and assessment procedure and offers a number of suggestions to help strengthen documentation in these areas.

This edition of Carefully Speaking® focuses on documentation of three vital elements of care: resident assessment/examination, care/service planning and team communication.

One quarter of residents admitted to aging services settings have a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia bipolar disorder depression or anxiety disorder and a significantly higher proportion exhibit some degree of dementia or memory loss.

This edition of Vantage Point® offers practical strategies designed to strengthen behavioral patient screening and assessment management of psychiatric patients in the ED, inpatient management of comorbidities, environmental safety and patient discharge.

This edition of Carefully Speaking® offers recommendations that are intended to help aging services organizations evaluate and upgrade their degree pf security preparedness.

This edition of Home Care Briefing reviews the importance of seamless transitions during staff absences and timely coverage arrangements.

This edition of AlertBulletin(r) focuses on the essential elements of serious adverse event crisis management.

This Alert Bulletin® offers guidelines designed to make drug take-back programs both safer and more efficient focusing on basic rules and policies pilferage and tampering prevention and complaint collection and disposal practices.

This resource presents an examination and discussion of current and emerging liability exposures confronting athletic training professionals.

This AlertBulletin looks at the need to develop an understanding of COC that can aid staff in detecting significant changes.

This issue of AlertBulletin® provides a brief overview of the current legal status of granny cams and suggests risk management strategies for organizations.

This edition of CareFully Speaking focuses on those aspects of resident care/service most vulnerable to documentation deficiencies, ranging from placement determination and risk assessment to medication therapy and changes in condition.

This edition of Carefully Speaking examines resident-on-resident sexual abuse an emerging risk that calls for a focused proactive response.

Working closely with agents and policyholders, CNA’s Risk Control team helps identify exposures and provide solutions to mitigate loss.

This resource features analysis of closed malpractice claim data, incident scenarios and risk control recommendations addressing major areas of vulnerability for occupational therapy professionals.

CNA's Alert Bulletin discusses strategies for how organizations can transform their current rounding program into a powerful quality improvement and risk control tool.

This edition of AlertBulletin® examines the risks associated with the prescribing and compounding of weight-loss medications and offers a variety of suggestions designed to limit potential liability.

This resource examines three major EMR-related issues and suggests countermeasures to protect patients and minimize liability exposures.

A pre-admission screen should be part of the admission process for every prospective resident.

Negotiated risk agreements (NRAs) have become an increasingly popular means of managing potential liability while accommodating resident preferences.

This issue of Alert Bulletin® focuses on aging services settings indicating potential problems in caring for transgender residents and suggesting measures to reduce risk in such areas as staff policies and training marketing admissions and social/recreational programming.

This edition of AlertBulletin® highlights adverse event management as a pillar of risk management and quality improvement efforts.

This article focuses on risk recommendations regarding one of the most significant topics from the report: Boundaries. Counselors assume a position of trust and authority with theirclients frequently becoming familiar with the most intimate and sensitive aspects of their lives. These relationships

This edition of AlertBulletin lists basic risk control strategies, describes common driver-related risk factors that contribute to accidents and suggests specific countermeasures.

The Aging Services Claim Report includes data analysis, key findings and claim scenarios to help raise awareness of potential risk factors, as well as practical risk management considerations to help mitigate sources of potential liability.

This edition of Carefully Speaking presents a range of documentation measures including a skin integrity program gap analysis tool to help organizations reduce their risk and strengthen defensibility.

Staffing levels are one of the most tangible measures of quality care but often fall well below the expectations of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

In collaboration with our business partners at Nurses Service Organization (NSO) CNA is the leading professional liability insurer of nurses. CNA and NSO are proud to offer this fourth comprehensive analysis of professional liability risks encountered by nurses.

An overview of available tools, services and expertise to help mitigate risk.

This Physical Therapy Spotlight focuses on our analysis and risk recommendations on Analysis of License Protection Matters with Defense expense Payment.

This report will help counselors enhance their practice and minimize professional liability exposure by identifying loss patterns and trends.

We specialize in providing insurance solutions for trade and industry associations, franchises, buying groups and individual businesses homogeneous in nature.

This edition of CareFully Speaking® examines the two major components of the IMPACT Act: clinical assessment data collection parameters and standardized quality and resource use reporting measures.