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Children’s Hospital Mediation Project Aims to Improve Communication Between Parents and Healthcare Providers
March 5, 2014
The Evelina London Children’s Hospital has reportedly instituted a new mediation project aimed at improving communication between parents and healthcare providers. The Evelina Resolution Project trains hospital staff how to identify potential conflicts and triggers, rebuild trust, consider the perspective of a patient’s parents, and manage stress. The program also allows both parents and hospital staff to request mediation services when a disagreement over a child’s care arises. The...
March 5, 2014
The Evelina London Children’s Hospital has reportedly instituted a new mediation project aimed at improving communication between parents and healthcare providers. The Evelina Resolution Project trains hospital staff how to identify potential conflicts and triggers, rebuild trust, consider the perspective of a patient’s parents, and manage stress. The program also allows both parents and hospital staff to request mediation services when a disagreement over a child’s care arises. The...
Voluntary Oregon Early Discussion and Resolution Program Offers Mediation Service to Patients, Medical Providers
March 4, 2014
Last year, the Oregon Legislature passed a resolution creating the voluntary Early Discussion and Resolution (“EDR”) process to address undesired healthcare outcomes. The resolution was signed into law in March and the EDR program is scheduled to go live on July 1, 2014. The EDR process offers a structured, confidential avenue for patients and their loved ones to address adverse healthcare events that did not result from a patient’s underlying illness with medical providers and healthcare...
March 4, 2014
Last year, the Oregon Legislature passed a resolution creating the voluntary Early Discussion and Resolution (“EDR”) process to address undesired healthcare outcomes. The resolution was signed into law in March and the EDR program is scheduled to go live on July 1, 2014. The EDR process offers a structured, confidential avenue for patients and their loved ones to address adverse healthcare events that did not result from a patient’s underlying illness with medical providers and healthcare...
FTC Wins Challenge Against Idaho Hospital Deal
January 25, 2014
A federal judge ruled Friday that an Idaho hospital system must unwind its acquisition of the state's largest independent doctor group, a decision that could have significant implications as health-care providers nationwide increasingly seek to join forces. The ruling handed another victory to the Federal Trade Commission, which in recent years has renewed its efforts to police health-care mergers it sees as anticompetitive. The commission has won a string of rulings against mergers between competing...
January 25, 2014
A federal judge ruled Friday that an Idaho hospital system must unwind its acquisition of the state's largest independent doctor group, a decision that could have significant implications as health-care providers nationwide increasingly seek to join forces. The ruling handed another victory to the Federal Trade Commission, which in recent years has renewed its efforts to police health-care mergers it sees as anticompetitive. The commission has won a string of rulings against mergers between competing...
Bioethics, Healthcare Policy, & Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Age of Obamacare
December 30, 2013
On November 18, 2013, the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution hosted its fall 2013 symposium, entitled “Bioethics, Healthcare Policy, & Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Age of Obamacare.” Friend of IndisputablyLela Love was kind enough to send along this synopsis of the event. ———————- “Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”…. I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.” (from Cutting...
December 30, 2013
On November 18, 2013, the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution hosted its fall 2013 symposium, entitled “Bioethics, Healthcare Policy, & Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Age of Obamacare.” Friend of IndisputablyLela Love was kind enough to send along this synopsis of the event. ———————- “Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”…. I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.” (from Cutting...
Court-Approved Mediation Used to Assist Fungal Meningitis Victims
November 22, 2013
The crossroads between healthcare and mediation is in the news again. According to reports, attorneys for many of the individuals who were injured in last year’s rare fungal meningitis outbreak are now working hard to ensure that every potential defendant participates in a court-approved mediation program set-up to help victims. The so-called Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee has asked healthcare providers who allegedly administered tainted drugs created at the now bankrupt New England Compounding...
November 22, 2013
The crossroads between healthcare and mediation is in the news again. According to reports, attorneys for many of the individuals who were injured in last year’s rare fungal meningitis outbreak are now working hard to ensure that every potential defendant participates in a court-approved mediation program set-up to help victims. The so-called Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee has asked healthcare providers who allegedly administered tainted drugs created at the now bankrupt New England Compounding...
San Antonio COA Refuses to Compel Nursing Home Negligence Case to Arbitration
August 1, 2013
Texas’ Fourth District Court of Appeals in San Antonio has refused to compel a nursing home health care liability lawsuit...
August 1, 2013
Texas’ Fourth District Court of Appeals in San Antonio has refused to compel a nursing home health care liability lawsuit...
NLRB Defers to Arbitral Decision in Healthcare Employment Dispute
June 10, 2013
A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) panel has declined to shift the burden to limit the effect of an arbitration award in a healthcare employment dispute. In Shands Jacksonville Med. Ctr. Inc., 359 NLRB No. 104 (Apr. 26, 2013), the NLRB’s Acting General Counsel requested that the board require an employer charged with unfair labor practices to demonstrate that an arbitral award meets the NLRB’s requirements for acceptance rather than require the General Counsel to prove that it does not. ...
June 10, 2013
A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) panel has declined to shift the burden to limit the effect of an arbitration award in a healthcare employment dispute. In Shands Jacksonville Med. Ctr. Inc., 359 NLRB No. 104 (Apr. 26, 2013), the NLRB’s Acting General Counsel requested that the board require an employer charged with unfair labor practices to demonstrate that an arbitral award meets the NLRB’s requirements for acceptance rather than require the General Counsel to prove that it does not. ...
Texas Bill Would Limit Use of Arbitration in Certain Insurance and Health Benefit Contracts
March 28, 2013
Relating to certain binding arbitration provisions in certain insurance and health benefit plan coverage documents.
March 28, 2013
Relating to certain binding arbitration provisions in certain insurance and health benefit plan coverage documents.
Disputing: Healthcare Mediation Gaining Popularity in Britain
November 9, 2012
Disputing: Healthcare Mediation Gaining Popularity in Britain http://goo.gl/0W7UO
November 9, 2012
Disputing: Healthcare Mediation Gaining Popularity in Britain http://goo.gl/0W7UO
Disputing: Changes to Texas HB 2605
October 22, 2012
Disputing: Changes to Texas HB 2605 http://goo.gl/CwdOJ
October 22, 2012
Disputing: Changes to Texas HB 2605 http://goo.gl/CwdOJ
