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We couldn’t be more pleased with our relationship with The Sullivan Group. Their risk education has been a hit with our practitioners and combined with the clinical risk assessment tool, we have been able to provide a comprehensive and very focused loss prevention program for our EDs. Now with a decade of claims data across 160 facilities, the data show a strong correlation between success in the program and our approximately 60% reduction in claims frequency.
Joseph Haase, CPHRM
Vice President, Risk Management
Clinical Services Group
HCA, Inc.
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Our malpractice insurer recently informed our emergency medicine group that we were losing our insurance coverage. We appealed that decision and demonstrated our risk management efforts including The Sullivan Group’s EMRI program. The insurance company renewed our policy based upon the strength of our risk management program. The Sullivan Group EMRI program has become the keystone or our department risk management program.
Richard Midthum, MD, Medical Director
Los Robles Regional Medical Center
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Over the past few years, The Sullivan Group has emerged as the leader in reducing risk in the practice of Emergency Medicine. The CME courses give emergency physicians, PA's, and nurses the real scoop they need to improve patient safety and avoid malpractice litigation. The on-line CME is so accessible, affordable, and relevant that we have made it mandatory for every physician and PA in our group. The Documentation Tools, whether electronic or hard copy, are essential guides to constructing a solid, defensible chart, and the Clinical Audit is the ultimate in quality assessment and improvement. Together, the CME, documentation tools, and the clinical audit make the “Triple Crown” of ED risk reduction. Our physicians love it, our insurers demand it, and our patients reap the benefits of our participation in The Sullivan Group Risk Management program.
Tom Syzek, MD, FACEP, Director of Risk Management
Premier Health Care Services
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Anyone who works in healthcare risk management for any length of time should know that emergency services produces an extremely high frequency of medical malpractice claims. In addition to the frequency of claims, the severity of these claims can also be as bad as any other high-risk area of facility. The Sullivan Group has a true grasp of causation of these claims as well as the solution. I have been involved first hand with the education and audit tools that The Sullivan Group has developed and provides as a solution to these problems. I have also seen the positive results of their programs and its effect on this important risk issue. My first act in a new risk management position of a multi-hospital company was to contact Dr. Dan Sullivan to help me address any problems I might have in our emergency departments.”
Jerry Rakes, Director of Risk Management
LifePoint
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In my 35+ years of nursing, no other course or class has had such an immediate and positive impact on my practice -- esp. in the triage role.
Pamela Culver, RN, Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Thoracic Aortic Dissection: Medical Error and Risk Reduction
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"must do" course for all E.D. physicians! We owe it to all of our chest pain patients that walk in through our doors
Dr. Jaime Moreno, Del Sol Medical Center
ECG Challenge Course
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I thought this course was outstanding. Although I am an obstetrician, I can easily imagine overlooking the initial process of sepsis. Two days after I did the appendicitis review, I admitted a pregnant patient with possible appendicitis. Of course, I got an immediate surgical consult. Again, timely, useful information
Dr. Michael Benson, ISMIE
Sepsis: Medical Error and Risk Reduction
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Of all the CME I have done, I feel that the Sullivan Group CME is most helpful in terms of supporting my mission to be a "safe practitioner".
Dr. Marcus Gitterle, Emergency Service Partners
Thoracic Aortic Dissection: Medical Error and Risk Reduction
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My staff really like these courses and especially like the ease of doing them at home and being able to logout and come back to a specific title later. Great resource.
Carl King, RN, St. Davids Medical Center
Wound Care: Medical Error and Risk Reduction
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I love these refresher courses. They highlight material that should be known as well as introduce new information that helps strengthen my clinical treatment of patients.
Dr. Sue Miller, Premier Health Care Services
EMRI Risk & Safety Overview Part 1
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Wow. Finally a CME course relative to my everyday practice. I wil keep coming back for more.
Dr. Jonathan Parker, Central DuPage Hospital
Appendicitis: Medical Error and Risk Reduction
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Brings home how ER's have changed since I first worked in them over 20 years ago. Particularly true of legal risk issues. As a radiologist I gained more awareness of communication issues with the ER.
Dr. John McFadden, ISMIE
Optimizing Communication on the Emergency Department
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We are very pleased with the professionalism and clinical expertise displayed by the team at The Sullivan Group. Their assessment of our obstetrics department helped us to narrow the focus of our safety and quality improvement efforts to those high-risk, high-impact areas highlighted by TSG’s analysis.
Stephanie Rogers,
Administrative Director of Risk Management
FirstHealth of the Carolinas
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