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Healthcare risk management perspectives, market commentary, and practical guidance from the Antum Risk team.
Update on Vaccine Requirements for Healthcare Workers
The OSHA Vaccine or Test ETS was blocked by the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) last week. SCOTUS essentially reapplied the temporary injunction that blocks OSHA from enforcing the ETS. While it...
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Emergency Regulation Requiring COVID-19 Vaccination for Healthcare Workers
On Thursday, November 4, 2021, CMS and OSHA released complimentary concurrent regulations mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for employees. While the OSHA standard targets facilities with 100+ employees, CMS takes primacy in...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Healthcare
As many of you are aware, on Thursday, September 9, 2021, the Biden administration announced the Path out of the Pandemic plan which includes the following six strategies: Vaccinating the...
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South Carolina’s Proposed Infectious Disease Standard
Yesterday SC OSHA issued a press release announcing their intention to promulgate their own Infectious Disease standard instead of adopting the new COVID ETS that was issued by Federal OSHA...
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COVID-19 ETS Training Requirements
The OSHA COVID-19 ETS was published in the Federal Register on June 21, 2021 and requires the completion of training elements by July 21, 2021 in states under Federal OSHA...
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OSHA’s ETS for COVID-19: Hazard Assessment Requirements
As you may be aware, the long awaited COVID-19 ETS was published in the Federal Register on June 21, 2021. The publication of the standard sets the compliance clocks in...
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OSHA’S ETS for COVID 19: Requirements for Screening and Paid Leave due Medical Removal, Testing, and Vaccinations
As many of you are aware, on Thursday, June 10, 2021, OSHA released the text of its much-anticipated COVID-19 emergency temporary standard which will apply only to the healthcare industry...
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OSHA’S ETS for COVID 19: New Requirements for Tracking and Reporting
As many of you are aware, on Thursday, June 10, 2021, OSHA released the text of its much-anticipated COVID-19 emergency temporary standard which will apply only to the healthcare industry...
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OSHA’s COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard
On Thursday, June 10, 2021, OSHA released the text of its much-anticipated COVID-19 emergency temporary standard. The ETS is the result of an Executive order signed by President Biden that...
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Injury Trends in a SC Workers’ Compensation Trust Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Palmetto Hospital Trust is a self-insured workers’ compensation Trust made up of healthcare entities in the state of South Carolina. Each year we look back at the trends impacting the...
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Meaningful Metrics for Your Employee Safety Program
A quick Google search will lead you to hundreds of pages with a variety of metrics, but you want metrics that MEAN something. Metrics that encourage others to join you...
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Clinical Documentation, Telling the Healthcare Story
Documentation is the written evidence of every interaction between patients and their families and the caregiving team. The goal of documentation is to tell the story of the patient’s journey...
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OSHA’s New National Emphasis Program for COVID-19
On Friday, March 12, 2021, OSHA released a new National Emphasis Program (NEP) for COVID-19 to be effective immediately and enforceable by March 26, 2021. State plans have until May...
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Methods for Measuring your Employee Safety Program
As humans, we love to measure things – distance, time, weight, etc. As managers of employee safety programs, we love to use metrics to measure the success of our programs...
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Reducing Workers’ Compensation Costs through a Transitional Duty Program
In a previous post we discussed the positive impact to both the employee and employer by getting an injured worker back to their job. The chances of returning to full...
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Newly Released OSHA Guidance on COVID-19
On January 29, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published “Protecting Workers: Guidance on Mitigating and preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in the Workplace.” What does this guidance...
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Pros of Early Return to Work for Injured Employees
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2019 data, Health Care and Social Assistance ranked as the occupation group with the most non-fatal work injuries. Keeping that in mind,...
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A Cost Saving Alternative to Commercial Stop-Loss Coverage
We have created a medical stop-loss alternative that combines the best of aspects of commercial medical stop-loss insurance and individually self-insuring your stop-loss coverage. The primary goal of this program...
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Prioritizing Risks Using Hazardous Vulnerability Assessment (HVA)
Healthcare organizations have a variety of risks: operational, clinical, financial, human capital, strategic, technological, legal and/or regulatory, as well as hazards. Identifying and prioritizing your organizational risks allows for a...
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Advantages of Group Self-Insurance Compared with Commercial Insurance
Focused Loss Prevention Services Self-insured funds view the cost of risk management and safety initiatives as an investment, not an expense, and therefore invest substantially more in loss prevention services...
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Responding to Healthcare Risks: Identifying, Trending, and Planning for Prevention
Risk is inherent in healthcare, so as leaders, what can we do to minimize risk, improve safety, and ensure quality outcomes for our patients? Identification of your organization’s specific risks,...
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Antum Risk provides a variety of risk management services to the healthcare industry. Our name was created by combining the Latin words “anceps” (risk) and “tutum” (safe). Though our name...
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