"We are devoted to providing consulting and educational programs to improve facility methods to properly utilize technology and procedures to attempt to prevent elopements, to improve facility elopement policies, to improve facility and patient assessment techniques, and to improve facility Elopement Response Plans resulting in improved patient safety"
Our definition for Elopement:
When a patient or resident who is cognitively, physically, mentally, emotionally, and/or chemically impaired; wanders away, walks away, runs away, escapes, or otherwise leaves a caregiving facility or environment unsupervised, unnoticed, and/or prior to their scheduled discharge.
NEWS ALERT! "Top DE court upholds $13 million dollar award in Alzheimer's Patient death"
This was in addition to $5 million dollar settlement for punitive damages.
NEWS ALERT! UPMC Settles Elopement Case Out of Court for over twice the national average.
NEWS ALERT! June 13, 2011 -
National Quality Forum (NQF) Board adds patient elopement to its Serious Reportable Events (SRE's) under Patient Protection Events.
NEWS ALERT! CNA reports average
out-of-court elopement settlement is $393,650.00 for 2009.
NEWS ALERT!
Now available the new 2012 EDITION of the Elopement Issues Workbook on CD! New lower price with up to date information. Learn more by clicking the the "more" tab then scroll to the "Long Term Care, Assisted Living, & Group Home Products" tab. Call us at:
(785) 286-0444 to order your copy at our introductory price of only $49.95 + S&H.
(785) 286-0444 to order your copy at our introductory price of only $49.95 + S&H.
