Education & Publications

Presentations

Lawyers at HDJN routinely educate healthcare providers on legal topics affecting their daily practice. If you are interested in HDJN presenting to your healthcare providers, please contact us.

Past topics include:
  • Advertising Issues
  • Annual Virginia Legislative Update
  • Assessment of a Corporate Compliance Program:  Determining “Effectiveness”
  • Best Practices for Effective Board Governance
  • Board Responsibility and Accountability: A Legal Update
  • Broad Based Approach to Compliance
  • Captive Insurance Formation and Operations
  • Compliance and Legal Issues Related to Healthcare Violence - Violence at Work - Are You Prepared?
  • Complying with EMTALA in Situations Involving Psychiatric Patients
  • Conducting Risk Management Investigations
  • Confidentiality
  • Coping with the Stress of Litigation and the Current Medical Malpractice Environment
  • Corporate Compliance and Employment Practices Liability
  • Corporate Compliance and the Risk Manager
  • Crisis Management - A Legal Perspective
  • Defending Depositions
  • Designing and Conducting Internal Investigations
  • Disclosure and Patient Safety: How Recent Healthcare Initiatives Affect Risk Management
  • Do Not Resuscitate Orders and Other Healthcare Directives
  • Documentation: A Critical Risk Management Tool
  • EMTALA
  • Employment Issues and Personnel Management in the Physician Office Setting
  • Employment Practices Liability: A Legal, Risk Management and Insurance Update
  • Healthcare Liability Trends: A Legal and Risk Management Update
  • Healthcare Pre-Employment Background Investigations
  • Healthcare Security and Workplace Violence
  • Home Health Nursing Documentation and Liability Avoidance
  • Informed Consent
  • Insurance Coverage
  • Insurance Procurement
  • Know When to Hold `Em: Handling Disruptive Patients (and Others)
  • Legal and Compliance Issues Relating to Background Investigations
  • Legal Perspectives of Risk Management
  • Legislative Update: General Assembly
  • Managed Care Contracting
  • Managing Risk and Facility Safety: The Legal Perspective
  • Managing Risks: Protecting Your Facility Against Lawsuits
  • Medical Malpractice Trends
  • Medical Staff: A Legal Overview
  • National Practitioner Data Bank Reporting Issues
  • Negligent Hiring
  • Nursing Home Update: Quality of Care Enforcement Trends
  • Nursing Documentation
  • Our Court and Jury System
  • Patient Abandonment
  • Patient Disclosure: Compliance and Risk Mitigation
  • Physician Supervision/Scope of Practice Issues
  • Pre-Employment Background Investigations: What You Need to Know to Comply With the Law
  • Pre-Placement Screening and Drug Testing
  • Preparing for and Handling Depositions
  • Preparing for and Handling Regulatory Investigations
  • Preserving the Integrity of Peer Review
  • Protecting Internal Company Information
  • Protecting Risk Management Documentation
  • Respondeat Superior/Negligent Supervision
  • Responding to Subpoenas
  • Risk Management in Dentistry & Oral Surgery
  • Risk Manager's Role in Critical Incident Management
  • Selected Topics in Healthcare Security
  • Sexual Harassment Update
  • Survey of Risk Management: Legal Perspectives of Risk Management
  • Temporary Detention Orders, Emergency Custody Orders, and Judicial Authorization of Treatment
  • Terrorism and Mass Disasters: A Legal Perspective for Healthcare Facilities
  • Understanding Directors and Officers Liability
  • Work Product Doctrine and Internal Investigations
  • Workplace Violence: A Proactive Legal Analysis