News
The MPL Association Appoints Mark Reynolds, CRICO President and CEO, a Board Officer
Feb 12, 2021
Mark E. Reynolds, President and CEO of CRICO, was recently appointed to serve on the Medical Professional Liability Association’s board of directors. Joining Reynolds are two other new board members, Sue A. Crook, MD, FACR, a Partner in Midwest Radiology, and Augstin L. Montalvo, President of SIMED, the leading provider of medical malpractice insurance in Puerto Rico. The three appointees will serve as interim members until May 2021 when they will receive approval to serve three-year terms.
Citation for the Full-text Article
Matray. The MPL Association appoints three new board officers. Medical Liability Monitor. Feb. 12, 2021.
Latest News from CRICO
Get all your medmal and patient safety news here.
Effects of Poor Communication in Healthcare
News
Exploring the effects of poor communication in health care, this HIPAA Journal article, published December 23, 2023, cites data from CRICO’s med mal database.
Assessing the Impact of Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions on Safety Culture with Proactive Risk Assessments
News
Hospitals seeking to understand patient safety strengths and vulnerabilities in the context of mergers/acquisitions benefit more from a third-party perspective than from a limited internal process. CRICO’s Risk Assessment Unit has access to a rich body of work to help articulate identified factors and by which to frame improvement recommendations.
Postpartum Malpractice Claims: Can We Understand Preventable Harms and Socioeconomic Factors?
News
Candello Member
In a multifactorial study, The Doctors Company (a Candello member organization) investigated postpartum claims to develop clinical recommendations to decrease the risks of postpartum morbidity and mortality.
How Does Work Environment Relate to Diagnostic Quality? A Prospective, Mixed Methods Study in Primary Care
News
CRICO Grants
The aim of this CRICO-funded study was to develop a tool assessing key elements of the diagnostic assessment process and apply it to a series of diagnostic encounters examining clinical notes and the encounters’ recorded transcripts.