Misunderstandings, incomplete explanations, or failure to confirm patient comprehension can create critical gaps that lead to medical errors, adverse events, and malpractice claims. The Joint Commission’s Standard PC.02.01.21—“The hospital effectively communicates with patients when providing care, treatment, and services”—highlights the necessity of clear, patient‑centered dialogue at every step of the healthcare journey. EvaluCare is a trusted partner to review medical care

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1.      Detail each Element of Performance (EP) under PC.01.03.01. 2.      Provide concrete examples, both of compliant practice and of malpractice cases arising from inadequate care planning. 3.      Show how breakdowns in patient involvement harm outcomes and how to recognize these “red flags.” 4.      Explain how an audit tool like EvaluCare can help hospitals review and verify that care planning met this standard.

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The Joint Commission recognizes this in Standard PC.01.02.15, which specifically addresses the hospital’s responsibility to ensure that diagnostic imaging services (including ordering, performing, interpreting, and following up) are executed in a safe, timely, and coordinated manner. If you or someone you love or represent has been harmed related to this standard of care, please reach out to EvaluCare to schedule a call

PC.01.02.03 falls under the Provision of Care, Treatment, and Services (PC) chapter of the Joint Commission’s standards. It specifically addresses the requirement for hospitals to: "Assess and reassess the patient and the patient's condition according to defined timeframes." One of the foundational principles behind safe, effective healthcare is the timely and accurate assessment of patients. EvaluCare review medical care against know standards established by The Joint Commi

The Joint Commission Standard PC.02.01.19 frames expectations for hospitals in monitoring patient conditions through a hospital stay. Failures to do so often lead to medical malpractice when a patient’s condition worsens in the hospital. EvaluCare is your Medical Care Review team that can identify if failure to monitor led to adverse events in care and help you identify next steps.

Here is a listing of the medical malpractice statute of limitations in each U.S. state (and the District of Columbia), including key nuances such as discovery‑rule extensions. In most states the clock begins running at the time of injury, but several carve out later start dates when the harm could not reasonably have been discovered earlier. EvaluCare can review your medical care to determine if a medical error or injury is medical malpractice.

Too often, patients and their loved ones carry the weight of questions around if a healthcare injury was the result of negligence. At EvaluCare, we understand how overwhelming it can be to face medical uncertainty on top of physical and emotional pain. You don’t need to navigate this journey by yourself, or pay for an attorney or file a lawsuit, to get the answers you deserve. EvaluCare is your trusted parnter in medical care review to get answers you deserve.

The Joint Commission’s Standard PC.01.01.01, “The hospital accepts the patient for care, treatment, and services based on its ability to meet the patient’s needs,” enshrines this expectation into accreditation requirements. EvaluCare is a resource for patients, families and attorneys in evaluating medical care to determine if a hospital violated this provision of care, and if EvaluCare helps find accountability.

Hospital‑acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs), formerly known as pressure ulcers or bedsores, are not only painful and debilitating but also when they occur under inpatient care, powerful indicators of systemic failure. These injuries, resulting from unrelieved pressure on vulnerable skin, can progress rapidly from superficial reddening to deep, sometimes fatal wounds. EvaluCare's medical care review can identify if practice contributed to the injury to help patients reach dire

When the health system fails so catastrophically that the harm is unthinkable: operating on the wrong body part, leaving a surgical instrument inside a patient, or discharging a newborn to the wrong family, such egregious errors are known as “never events,”incidents so serious, so unambiguous, and so preventable that they should literally never occur. EvaluCare is a partner to patients, families and attorneys to review medical care to determine what practices were not followe

Healthcare is in constant evolution, with new evidence‑based practices, technologies, and safety protocols emerging daily. Yet not every hospital embraces these advances at the same pace. A growing body of evidence shows that early adopters, those institutions quick to integrate best practices. EvaluCare's medical care review services helps determine if organizations are slow to adopt the practices that could have prevented harm in medical malpractice cases.

By the end, you will see why PSOs are indispensable to a learning health system and how their confidential, non‑punitive approach unlocks candid insights that no other mechanism can replicate. EvaluCare is a resource to evaluate a hospitals culture of participation in PSOs and the adoption of practices that may prevent medical malpractice.

In this detailed exploration, we will trace the history of clinical registries, describe the variety of registries available to hospital services, illustrate how registry data uncover system issues (for example, linking acute kidney injury rates back to intraoperative practices), and explain why full engagement is essential for patient safety, academic advancement, and defense against malpractice risk. EvaluCare is a trusted partner to review quality registry data for medical

The structured review process and tools used in support of M&Ms are very similar to the Medical Care Review process that EvaluCare and its team of Quality & Medical Experts offers to patients, families and attorneys when care goes wrong, and medical malpractice is suspected. In the realm of today's quality program, M&Ms serve a critical role in making care safer by uncovering latent issues that may go unnoticed until trends develop and more patients are harmed.

Over the past two decades, malpractice claims tied to language miscommunication have resulted in multimillion‑dollar awards, particularly when untrained family members or ad‑hoc staff interpret critical conversations. Without professional interpreters or translated materials, critical information can be lost, misunderstood, or never communicated. Evalucare is a resource to review medical care to determine if language access services were sufficient to meet care needs.

Every day, hospitals juggle high patient volumes, complex clinical pathways, and relentless cost pressures. In response, many have turned to Lean management systems, adaptations of the Toyota Production System, to streamline workflows, eliminate waste, and enhance patient value. Yet despite decades of evidence and high‑profile success stories, systemic adoption of Lean remains sporadic. Evalucare can identify if an organization's quality program follows Lean principles to avo

When hospital staffing shortages become crises, travel nursing often appears as a silver bullet. Travel nurses, most often registered nurses contracted for short‑term assignments, offer flexibility and rapid deployment to understaffed units. Because travel nurses rotate frequently, lack institutional memory, and may not be fully versed in local safety protocols, they can inadvertently increase the risk of medical errors. EvaluCare can help review medical care when traveler ca

Under EMTALA, any individual who “comes to the emergency department and requests examination or treatment for a medical condition” is entitled to a timely, appropriate medical screening examination (MSE) to determine whether an emergency medical condition exists. EvaluCare is a resource for patients and families to provide medical care reviews to determine if care violated EMTALA, resulting in harm.