Risk Management

At BerkleyMed, we approach risk management as a partnership, aligning our services with your expressed or identified needs with the focus on lowering your propensity for professional liability exposure and loss. We want to better understand how your organization presently evaluates and manages your clinical risk management programs. We work closely with your professional risk management team to achieve this understanding. 

From on-site reviews and discussions with you, recommendations and a customized service strategy will be developed based on your unique needs. These strategies may include:

• educational programs,
• advocacy,
• resource assistance, or
• other customized offerings

The Risk Management department of BerkleyMed brings over 80 years of experience in the healthcare industry with over 40 years in healthcare Risk Management. Some of our areas of clinical expertise include pediatric and adult intensive care; cardiac cath; med/surg, and OB nursing.  We bring the experience of having performed reviews in over 300 hospitals, and having observed many processes which gives us the ability to share identified "best practices” with our self insured clients.

Some of the types of programs and services that we have provided to our customers include:

• Documentation Seminars for General Nursing Staff
• Risk Management Issues in Perinatal Nursing
• Communication Breakdown’s Impact on Patient Care
• Physician Office Practice: Risk Management Implications
• Electronic Medical Records: Risk Management Implications
• Risk Management Orientation
• Opinion Letters
• Research / Literature Review
• White paper drafts

The BerkleyMed Risk Management Team seeks to help lower your propensity for professional liability exposure and loss.  Through our experience, proprietary data, and consultation with you, we strive to provide cost effective actionable recommendations that will achieve best practice program performance.