Knowing what steps to take after a medical error will impact not only your health and healing but also how prepared you are to seek answers and remedies for the error. Experiencing a medical error can be overwhelming and distressing. It's crucial to take informed steps to understand what happened, ensure your safety, and seek accountability if necessary. This guide outlines actionable steps to help you navigate such situations. This blog is focused on collecting as much infor

Healthcare professional completing a checklist next to a patient's bed. In today’s healthcare landscape, the pressure on hospitals to meet regulatory standards is enormous. Accreditation bodies, government regulations, and public reporting metrics shape much of what organizations focus on. Yet a critical distinction must be made: designing a quality processes purely to meet regulatory standards is fundamentally different from designing for best practices and continuous qualit

The reality is that when medical error disclosures are made, it doesn’t mean all information regarding the error is shared. You may be told an error occurred but have no context to the causes and details regarding the level of negligence that may have occurred if any. 

Secondary findings are frequently overlooked, under-communicated, or ignored, a dangerous oversight that can have devastating consequences. When early signs of disease are not addressed because they were "incidental," patients may face delayed diagnoses, limited treatment options, and worsened outcomes that might have been avoided.

This blog explores the expansive and critical role of healthcare quality professionals, their methodologies, the domains they influence, and how their expertise is uniquely positioned to support patients harmed by medical malpractice through organizations like EvaluCare.

When it comes to a treatment relationship between a healthcare provider and a patient implied consent, consent to treat and informed consent are types of consent for care. Each are different, each are important. Informed consent is a critical part of the treatment relationship between a healthcare provider and a patient. Implied Consent Implied Consent is driven primarily driven by a patient’s actions and behaviors. A patient seeks care and calls a doctor’s office for an appo