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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.
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Mr. Hoffman is a member of the Patient
Care Ombudsman team that was appointed by the United States Trustee for
the Central District of California in the Pacifica Hospital of the Valley,
Sun Valley, California case. The Patient Care Ombudsman team is responsible
for monitoring the quality of care at the hospital while it is in bankruptcy.
Mr. Hoffman’s article, “Failing to Care: How Effective Compliance
Prevents Institutional Elder Neglect” appears in the latest issue
of Marquette University School of Law’s Elder’s Advisor. This
article was authored as part of Mr. Hoffman’s participation in the
Marquette University School of Law’s symposium titled The Kindness
of Strangers: Enhancing Lives Through Long-Term Care.
Learn More Copyright by Marquette University.
David Hoffman will be presenting two sessions at the upcoming Compliance
Training: A Certification Program for Healthcare Regulatory Compliance
Professionals hosted by the Widener University School of Law
on March 3rd and 4th. Mr. Hoffman will be discussing new compliance guidance
for long-term care professionals and patient safety reporting requirements
and the Patient Safety Quality Improvement Act.
Mr. Hoffman’s
article, “Quality Care: Patient-Centered, Provider Smart”,
appeared in the November 2008 issue of New Perspectives.
Mr.
Hoffman’s article titled “The role of a monitor in pharmaceutical
manufacturer settlements” appears in the September 2008 issue of
Compliance Today.
David Hoffman has joined the faculty of the Drexel University Earle Mack
School of Law as an Adjunct Professor. Mr. Hoffman will be teaching a
course that is focused on the legal theories surrounding the patient safety
movement.
Mr. Hoffman's article, "Quality of Care and Corporate Compliance-Perfect
Together!” was published in the December 2007 edition of Compliance
Today
Upcoming Events:
Learn More
June 25, 2009: Mr. Hoffman will be speaking at the National
Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units’ Resident Abuse Training
Program in Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Hoffman will be discussing Corporate
Integrity, Exclusions and License issues.
August 19, 2008: David Hoffman will be teaching a seminar on
the Role of Government to nursing home administrators at the Marriott
Courtyard in Plymouth Meeting, PA. This seminar is sponsored by The Institute
for Continuing Education & Research (ICER) and is intended for licensed
nursing home administrators and those intending to become nursing home
administrators.
September 5, 2008: David Hoffman will be presenting
at the Health Care Compliance Association’s New England Regional
Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Hoffman will be speaking about
“Quality and Compliance” and how effective compliance by providers
can avoid institutional neglect.
September 29, 2008: David Hoffman will be speaking at
the Health Care Compliance Association’s Quality of Care conference
in Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Hoffman’s presentation is titled “Assisted
Living: The Next Quality Compliance Frontier”.
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David
Hoffman and Associates helps Healthcare
providers and patients all over
the country.