by Russ Nassof | Jan 24, 2018 | Healthcare Environmental Risks
Every day sick patients are treated in hospitals with broad spectrum antibiotics while their physicians wait days for culture results to identify infectious pathogen susceptibility to confirm or revise the treatment protocol. Unfortunately, many of these patients...
by Russ Nassof | Jul 5, 2015 | Healthcare Environmental Risks
Watch Russ Nassof discuss Reducing Risk and Liability for Vascular Clinicians Under the ACA and Other Regulations, as presented at various healthcare conferences around the USA. Here is Part I: … and here is Part...
by Russ Nassof | Dec 4, 2014 | Healthcare Environmental Risks
Everyone who has ever stepped foot into a healthcare facility as either a patient or a visitor has undoubtedly witnessed the numerous patients attached to long lines of plastic tubing usually extending from the arm and connected to some type of plastic bag dispensing...
by Russ Nassof | Nov 21, 2014 | Healthcare Environmental Risks
Prevention of adverse events in healthcare has rightfully become a cornerstone of progressive risk management and has been assuming greater importance every year. It is interesting that this focus on preventing adverse events in healthcare is relatively new and is now...
by Russ Nassof | Sep 11, 2014 | Healthcare Environmental Risks
Studies have shown that many building water systems in the United States are contaminated with potentially harmful bacteria and, in fact, disease outbreaks which can be traced to contaminated water happen with incredible frequency worldwide affecting thousands of...
by Russ Nassof | Jul 28, 2014 | Commercial Property Environmental Risks, Healthcare Environmental Risks, Insurance Environmental Risks
So I have a new responsibility at work which now involves not only doing my regular job which often takes up 12 hours of every day but I am now tasked with the arduous responsibility of writing something called a blog for my company. As a late baby boomer I cannot...