by Verona Bair | Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | Risk Management
As a therapy provider, your staff must be educated on how to effectively monitor and ensure the safety of the gym’s residents, patients, visitors, and other team members. It is a potential liability of exposure for your gym should a resident or patient sustain a...
by Verona Bair | Thursday, March 17, 2022 | Risk Management
Therapists and caregivers can be plagued with musculoskeletal injuries, including muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, nerves, blood vessels, or related soft tissue injuries, including sprains, strains, or inflammation. As a health care provider, if you become...
by Functional Pathways | Wednesday, August 18, 2021 | Risk Management
You were fully vaccinated and had a brief period of “back to normal,” well, long enough for the Delta variant to gain strength. Until we have enough individuals fully vaccinated the virus will continue to mutate. That is a topic for another discussion, today, I want...
by Functional Pathways | Thursday, July 29, 2021 | Featured, Risk Management
Recent CDC guidance has changed for fully vaccinated individuals. Hopefully this will help you decipher exactly what that means for you depending on where you live or work. As we have already talked about, RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SURVIVING IN COVID CONDITIONS WILL CHANGE...
by Functional Pathways | Wednesday, July 21, 2021 | Featured, Risk Management
COVID cases are rising again, averaging 30,000 new cases a day, reversing the months long downward trend in the United States. News of the new COVID Delta variant is hitting the media outlets daily. Cities across our country are seeing an uptick in cases and...
by Functional Pathways | Tuesday, July 6, 2021 | Risk Management
Although a rare occurrence, therapists have possibility of experiencing a needlestick injury. Most PTs/PTAs, OTs/COTAs, or SLPs do not routinely use hypodermic syringes or other “sharps” during course of therapy practice. Nonetheless, this does not mean they will...
