For details about accessing education for the DEA/MATE training requirement, read this article.
Patient Safety Awareness Week serves as a national education campaign for promoting patient safety practices.
“The Joint Commission is cutting more than 200 standards across its accreditation programs, many of which will take effect July 1,” reports Becker's H...
Becker's Hospital Review reported, "Among the 4,980 citations delivered to hospitals in 2023, the most common were for care in a safe setting deficien...
Enrolling your employed or contracted Nurse Practitioners and/or Physician Assistants in the Louisiana Patient's Compensation Fund provides them and y...
Becker's Hospital Review reported, "The Joint Commission has added new and revised standing requirements for accreditation of both critical access hos...
A LAMMICO subsidiary, the Medical Interactive Community (MI) website is your one-stop site for LAMMICO’s comprehensive library of complimentary online...
This Valentine's Day, we encourage our insureds to take advantage of complimentary resources to improve your well-being and health.
The duties of a medical director are exposures typically not covered by an individual’s medical professional liability insurance policy.
LAMMICO was named one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation for Winter 2023.
LAMMICO offers our policyholders and practice managers complimentary access to TMHCC CyberNET®, an advanced cyber risk management resource and educati...
Dr. Susan Hertzberg provides three strategies that can be implemented to reduce and manage instances of patient aggression.
NoEscape ransomware used multi-extortion tactics to target the healthcare and public health sector and other industries in 2023.
When marketing and promoting a healthcare facility, there are important details to consider in order to safeguard protected health information (PHI) a...
If you finance your premium payments, please note that in order to renew your policy each year you must set up a new IPFS premium finance agreement an...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) produced a video for organizations covered under the HIPAA Rules.
The article includes highlights of the TJC 2023 updates and actions that are important for hospitals and facilities.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently issued a cybersecurity advisory regarding a new ransomware threat.
This series of articles discusses each of the four implementation specifications of the HIPAA Security Rule Access Control Standard, continuing with P...
In the past few years, there have been a number of high-profile incidents involving the inappropriate disposal of PHI that have led to considerable ne...
There is a cybersecurity toolkit that includes ways for the health sector to mitigate risk, such as vulnerability scanning, best practices, and a fram...
It has been a busy year so far in 2023 for The Joint Commission (TJC) issuing various Sentinel Event Alerts and Quick Safety news.
The Joint Commission (TJC) recently published a Sentinel Event Alert newsletter with updated information about preventing surgical fires.
LAMMICO launched this e-newsletter to bring you long-term care news and insights.
The practice environment of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants or associates (PAs) (collectively referred to as advanced practice prov...
The Leapfrog Group and the American Diabetes Association partnered to launch a new hospital recognition program, “Recognized Leader in Caring for Peop...
Updated and new recommendations for acute care hospitals to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) were published in Infection C...
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. To help our insureds better protect themselves and their practices from a cybersecurity incident, we will pr...
To help our insureds better protect themselves and their practices from a cybersecurity incident, we will provide cybersecurity-related content in our...
Congratulations to the recipient of the 8th Annual LAMMICO Patient Safety Award and Grant: St. Bernard Parish Hospital in Chalmette, Louisiana. The 20...
The CMS memo details those three elements that hospitals should consider in ensuring patient safety related to ligature risks.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently launched the Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements to support hospitals in quickly ident...
Hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) and long-term care (LTC) facilities in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas and Tennessee are invited t...
We couldn’t be prouder to announce that LAMMICO has again been named the #1 Top Workplace in the small company category by NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune...
On December 29, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 enacted a new one-time, eight-hour training requirement for all Drug Enforcement Adm...
This series of articles discusses each of the four implementation specifications of the HIPAA Security Rule Access Control Standard, beginning with Pa...