10/26/2020· Healthcare Facilities - Hospitals
Flex Budgets: A Quick Guide For Hospitals
By: Sahel Shwayhat, MBA, FACHE
Hospitals, like most businesses, have budgets. While they all track their performance closely against that budget at the organizational level, many fail to do so with the same rigor at the cost center level, mainly due to lack of dependable reports. In this article, I will explain what flex budgeting is, how it is calculated, and why using it helps the organization.
3/8/2017· Premises Liability
Retail Safety Hints: The Proof Is In the Video Replay...
By: Jerry Birnbach
The Patriots won the Super Bowl because they had more Angels on the field which was my Expert observation. As an Expert Witness for Retail liability case, assisting Liability Attorney's across the country, I have trained my eye to observe. So what did I take away from the Super Bowl?
8/28/2018· Electrical - Electrocution
Testing... Testing... Is This Thing On?
By: Thomas J. Kelly
Many people just take for granted that something is just going to work, and in many cases assume that it will work forever. One such device that does not get enough attention is the Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI). Simply put, a GFCI is a protective device that compares the current flowing on the hot and neutral wires of the circuit and will "trip" to disconnect power to the circuit if a small imbalance of current is detected. The imbalance of current is an indication of a dangerous alternate path for the current to flow from a damaged line cord or a fault inside an appliance and constitutes a shock hazard to a person.
6/19/2018· Warnings & Labels
Criteria for Evaluating Warnings
If you do work as an expert witness on warnings, you probably feel quite confident that you know a bad warning when you see one (and would know a good one if you ever saw one). Of course, backing up our opinion with some version of, "I just know" doesn't make for very strong testimony. Indeed, we can count on our criteria being challenged by opposing council even when we can articulate them.
11/21/2022· Pain Management
Defense Support - Wrongful Death Suit Related To Opioid Analgesics
By: Joel L. Kent, MD
Following my review of the records as well as the research I conducted, I provided an affidavit to the court indicating that the claims of negligence against this provider had no merit. I found that the treatments provided had been fully within the standard of care recognized at the time.
1/14/2019· Transportation
By: Ned Einstein
Thankfully, mowing down pedestrians in a crosswalk is not yet commonplace. But it is also not rare. This incident scenario is most common to transit buses making left turns (see "The Danger Deterrent," NATIONAL BUS TRADER, April 2016) But it happens occasionally with almost every transportation mode. Yet the defenses almost always cited by the drivers are no match for someone with a high school diploma.
3/18/2021· Healthcare Facilities - Hospitals
Anatomy Of A Hospital Flex Budget Report
By: Sahel Shwayhat, MBA, FACHE
What does a Flex report tell us? The two right most columns are the crux of the Flex report. One column shows how a department performed against a static budget (developed months earlier with certain assumptions in mind), and the other column shows how a department performed against a newly "flexed" budget, that took product volume and mix into consideration.
2/27/2019· Transportation
Tight Schedules, Part 1: The Other Achilles Heel
By: Ned Einstein
Early in my 42 years working in the public transportation field, I learned that the industry's Achilles Heel is negligent monitoring. Almost no one knows how to do this effectively. Few agencies or companies do this at all. Most of their officials do not care. So the industry is rife with crossing accidents, negligent retention, wheelchair tipovers and passenger molestation, among other common accident and incident scenarios.
3/14/2019· Finance
ERISA, the Fiduciary Standard and Where We Go from Here
By: Marguerita Cheng
Putting the DOL's investor-protection rule into historical context sheds new light on what the future may hold for retirement savers.
8/22/2014· Medical - Medicine
During the past ten to fifteen years, the number of cosmetic laser and light procedures performed has exploded. According to a 2012 report by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the following increases have occurred:
