Jeffrey L. Cohen, MD, FACS, FASCRS
Friday, 3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Results-Driven Risk Management Programs: A Surgical Group and Physician Group Share Success Stories
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During 2004-2011, Connecticut Surgical Group (now called Hartford Specialists) and ProHealth Physicians implemented enterprise-wide risk management programs that dramatically reduced their malpractice exposures, improved patient safety, and saved millions of dollars in insurance premiums. This presentation provides a detailed roadmap of the design and implementation of the programs including their overwhelmingly positive performance results.
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to describe the organizational need for and the value of implementing an enterprise-wide risk management program for physician groups; evaluate the data from key performance metrics of a comprehensive risk management program; describe the positive impact of risk management/patient safety cultural changes within physician groups; and describe practical risk management best practices that can be easily be implemented to assist in reducing medico-legal risk exposures.
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President of Connecticut Surgical Group. Specializing in colon & rectal surgery, Dr. Cohen coordinates the activities of approximately 45 surgeons and seven practitioners. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University P&S, and is a Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Connecticut
