Event Details
FREE for NEAHQ members, $15 for non-members
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In healthcare and other regulated industries, maintaining a clear delineation between compliance, risk management, quality/patient safety, and the in-house legal department is crucial. While these functions serve distinct purposes, their collaboration is essential to ensure a holistic and effective approach to organizational integrity and patient care.
While separation is essential from a legal and regulatory standpoint, collaboration among these departments is crucial for organizational integrity. Effective communication ensures that compliance, risk management, and legal strategies are aligned with operational and safety priorities, fostering a culture of excellence and safety.
About the Speakers:
Julie Janeway, MSA, JD
Julie has been a Michigan life sciences and health law attorney for twenty-six years. She is the co-owner and General Counsel of Principled Healthcare Consulting, the principal attorney at Janeway Law PLLC, and also serves as the external General Counsel for Advize Health. Previously, she served as the Interim Chief Legal Counsel for an international healthcare company operating in four countries, and she practiced with Foley, Baron, Metzger & Julip, PLLC, heading the Healthcare Law Department. Her law firm practice included compliance, risk management, healthcare professional licensing defense, business/corporate law, employment law, pharmacy law, PSO/PSES (PSWP) development, audit response/defense/mitigation, independent internal and parallel investigations, contracting and other fields of healthcare and life sciences law, and all related training for healthcare entities, practitioners and practitioner organizations, and other businesses and associations in the healthcare and life sciences industries.
Linda Weirauch, MSN, RN, CPHQ
Linda has been in the healthcare industry for over 25 years. She is the Market Director of Quality, Risk and Infection Control for Select Specialty Hospitals in Flint and Saginaw, Michigan, two of over 100 Critical Illness Recovery Hospitals across the United States. Her passion focuses on reducing patient harm in the areas of Infection Control, Performance Improvement, Quality Reporting and Risk Management Programs. She also directs activities for accreditation preparedness and Medical Staff OPPE. Linda is active in National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), is a CPHQ review Course Instructor and is the current Education Chairperson for the Michigan Association for Healthcare Quality (MAHQ).
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to explain and understand the roles and purposes of Compliance, Risk Management, Quality, Patient Safety and Legal.
2. Attendees will be able to summarize and recognize the inherent conflicts of interest in the compliance, risk management, and quality/patient safety leadership roles.
3. Attendees will be able to recognize and summarize the need for their separation and assignment to separate individuals.
4. Participants will be able to describe and prevent the potential and probable negative effects when these roles are the responsibility of one person.
5. Attendees will assess their own organizations to ensure prevention strategies are in place to avoid these potentially negative issues
This activity/program is approved by NAHQ® 1.5 hours of CPHQ CE credit
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