Loss Prevention Support Services

At Skyview, we understand the critical link between loss prevention and business results. That link is your physician and medical support staff, and who better to help you facilitate physician change than physicians? The goal of our physician consultants is to help you significantly mitigate your liability exposures, and turn loss prevention into a profitable business strategy. Physician consultants who understand the business of risk will work with you and your medical staff to identify your organization's potential liabilities and provide you with guidance and tools for reducing your risk, allowing you to control the cost of loss and reduce claim frequency and severity:

Loss Prevention Programs and Services

Loss prevention is the act of taking proactive measures to prevent or abate an identified risk exposure. Loss frequency is controlled by focusing on the causes of loss. Loss severity is reduced by identifying the factors that magnify or prolong that loss. These realities compromise the basics of most loss prevention programs; however, medical staff are often taught skills by individuals who have spent very little time providing clinical care in a healthcare setting.

Designed, delivered, and implemented by physicians for physicians, our loss-prevention programs and services were created to improve those behaviors that most often contribute to claim frequency and severity. Physicians and healthcare organizations around the country have benefited from our loss prevention services and programs because our physician consultants have walked in the shoes of those you count on to limit your organization's risk exposure every day. Our loss prevention programs and services include:

I. Facility Risk Assessments - Our on-site risk assessments will provide you with an evaluation of your medical staff's operating environment, your physician staff's claims history, and the clinical situations and settings that pose the biggest risks to your organization.

II. Post-Assessment Change Management - After our physician consultants have thoroughly analyzed those systems that most impact risk, we will develop and educate your medical staff to implement effective and realistic solutions for reducing risk and measuring progress. Our proactive methods and programs will increase your understanding of the risk your organization faces, and use that understanding to mitigate risk to acceptable levels.

III. Loss Prevention Programs - Designed to improve the patient care, documentation and communication skills of healthcare professionals, our programs are taught by physicians who understand the inherent difficulties of providing patient care in all types of clinical environments. Our programs teach and reinforce a "best practices" approach to medical and non-medical loss prevention and litigation techniques. We ensure that your staff is fully versed in the latest tools and proven methodology to reduce those behaviors and practice patterns that "typically" contribute to professional liability claims.

IV. Pre-deposition and pre-trial counseling of your provider and medical support staff - Our seasoned physician experts will work with your doctor and medical support staff defendants and defense team to help enhance the defendant's performance at deposition and/or trial. We will review the case together, help in medical strategy formulation, discuss deposition/trial testimony skills and pitfalls, address areas of weakness, and have the defendant practice testimony delivery.

V. Multispecialty RM Program