Risk Management and Orlando Medical Malpractice
Many Orlando medical malpractice clients who seek our services have never heard of risk management. When a patient goes to Orlando Regional Medical Center or Florida Hospital Orlando they are innocent to the fact that these hospitals have an entire department that is devoted to avoiding medical malpractice claims. As its name implies, "risk management" seeks to limit or manage risks that the business may face.
These risk management departments hire professionals who do all that is possible to prevent the hospital from being sued for medical malpractice. They train hospital personnel, including the nursing staff not to admit any wrongdoing to patients when medical malpractice occurs. If successful risk managers will keep patients from ever discovering that medical malpractice has occurred.
Well before any medical malpractice claim is filed, hospital risk management personnel have reviewed the hospital chart, interviewed the nurses and other employee healthcare providers and may have consulted their legal teams. While a patient is still in the hospital, the risk management team may have developed a strategy to avoid accountability for the injury caused by medical malpractice. The risk management personnel along with the hospital medical malpractice lawyers will also meet with medical experts to determine if the patient's injury or death can be blamed on something unrelated to the hospital's reckless behavior.
People should understand that hospitals are big business. Risk management departments are there to minimize losses from medical malpractice. Patients must realize what they are up against when medical malpractice occurs.
