Healthcare providers continue to be confronted with multiple challenges: higher acuity levels, shrinking reimbursement, a national nurse staffing shortage, more stringent and complex regulations, and increased litigation. As a result, the struggle to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements often appears to be an uphill battle. This is especially frustrating to owners, administrators, clinical staff, and researchers who aim to go beyond compliance to provide innovative care and services. In some instances, patients in institutional settings, such as hospitals, nursing homes or assisted living facilities, may be at risk based upon the failure of providers to adequately address basic care needs.

David Hoffman & Associates provides a proactive approach to compliance, viewing clinical and financial operations as well as clinical research programs through a legal lens to:

• create a culture of compliance
• conduct an evaluation to assess the degree of compliance
• collaborate with the provider to develop a plan for compliance
• identify organizational strengths and develop an action plan that helps
  organizations realize their fullest potential

Creating a culture of compliance is accomplished through a customized plan that includes varying degrees of the following:

• evaluation
• education
• customized action plans
• discussions with regulators

The development of systems to provide quality care to vulnerable populations requires meaningful quality improvement efforts that systemically monitors organizational and clinical processes of care and is constantly revising these processes based upon clinical and regulatory outcomes. David Hoffman & Associates brings legal and clinical expertise in addressing these difficult issues.