Risk Management & Patient Safety Services

Risk Management for Physicians and Their Practices

LAMMICO's Risk Management and Patient Safety Department leverages lessons learned from the team's collective risk management experiences as healthcare professionals. Our goal is to reduce risk both to insureds and to patients, so we urge you to take advantage of the resources and tools listed below. Click here to learn more about the education services offered. 

The Risk Management and Patient Safety Department at LAMMICO includes certified risk managers who help you reduce your risk exposure in your practice and improve your defensibility. They will visit your office, evaluate key risk areas and provide tailored recommendations.

LAMMICO’s certified risk managers are available during regular business hours to answer your or your office personnel’s questions concerning medical records, informed consent, patient dismissal, documentation and other topics. Please contact the LAMMICO Risk Management and Patient Safety Department at 504.841.5211 or 800.452.2120 to speak to the Risk Manager on call.

Courses targeted to medical office staff are available on Medical Interactive Community (MI) website. In addition, LAMMICO’s Risk Managers offer educational in-service presentations and webinars to LAMMICO policyholders and their office staff. These presentations are based on data from assessments, along with the real world experience of our Risk Managers. 

Please register and/or log in to visit MI as a qualified office manager.  

The Risk Management Reference Guide is a compilation of what we’ve found to be the most useful and requested risk management information for the medical office. Chapters include topics such as Medical Records Management, Dismissing a Patient, Informed Consent, and many others. The Reference Guide can be downloaded from the Practice Solutions webpage after logging in as a Member at lammico.com, or you may call the Risk Management and Patient Safety Department at 504.841.5211 or 800.452.2120 and request a copy be mailed to you. Also available is the Hurricane Preparedness for Medical Practices manual, a tool containing checklists and recommendations regarding disaster preparation, response and recovery.

Simply register and/or log in as a Member at lammico.com to access these materials in the Practice Solutions webpages.

Practice Solutions products are a compendium of practical recommendations for dealing with a large variety of issues arising daily in the medical office. Directed to all members of the medical office, facility or hospital staff, we gather our data from claim histories and patient safety analyses to help optimize your day-to-day procedures. This resource is exclusively available for LAMMICO policyholders and their qualifying staff.

Resources related to compliance and accountability in the medical office include information from among the following general categories:

  • Risk Reduction
  • Cybersecurity
  • HIPAA

Valuable patient safety reference materials include:

  • Risk Management Reference Guides
  • Hurricane Preparedness for Medical Practices
  • HIPAA Information for Office Managers

To learn more about Practice Solutions, click here. 

Simply register and/or log in as a Member at lammico.com to access these materials in the Practice Solutions section.

Risk Management for Hospitals & Facilities

LAMMICO’s Risk Managers have extensive backgrounds in areas of risk management essential for hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, long-term care and other healthcare facilities, including patient/resident safety, performance improvement and clinical documentation. Additionally, they have experience working with regulatory standards such as The Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Benefits to LAMMICO-insured hospitals and facilities include:

LAMMICO’s certified and highly experienced risk managers will work with your risk managers, quality improvement department, nursing services and/or safety officers to conduct systematic and individualized on-site assessments. Tailored and specific recommendations for reducing risk in the hospital or facility setting are provided in real time.

A LAMMICO Risk Manager can answer risk management questions from insured hospitals and facilities. Our risk managers have extensive experience in risk management, patient/resident safety, quality improvement, hospital and LTC operations, Joint Commission review preparation, health information systems, root cause analysis, general liability and management of sentinel events. 

Risk Management online education for hospital and LTC administrators, risk managers, nurses, physicians and other hospital and facility staff is available through LAMMICO's subsidiary, Medical Interactive Community (MI), including Continuing Nursing Education (CNE). In addition, risk managers and risk management physician consultants are available for on-site presentations at your hospital or healthcare facility. LAMMICO presents complimentary webinars for insured hospitals, ASCs, LTC and other healthcare facilities.