Managed Care Liability Expert Witnesses, Page 1

Paul M. Adler, DO, FACEP, MBA, Medical Director for the Ventura County, California, Department of Corrections, has worked in Correctional / Jail / Prison Medicine & COVID-19 Preparation & Response. He has overseen the care of inmates in Jails in California and New York, as well as Prison inmates who have been transferred to county facilities to serve their terms for years in county jails in California. He has also overseen Correctional health car in locked units in Hospitals .

Dr. Adler is the President-Elect of The American Correctional Health Services Association of California / Nevada, which represents all clinicians and administrators in Jails/Prisons in California and Nevada. He previously oversaw a County Hospital, County Nursing Home and ran a County Health Department and oversaw Correctional healthcare for the Westchester, New York Jail.

Litigation Support - Dr. Adler has defended Jails and Prisons in Southern California, Idaho, Texas, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, etc. He is currently the expert consultant to the California Prison System for Covid litigation and the medical consultant to the judicial consent decree overseeing care in the Philadelphia Department of Prisons. He also served as the expert consultant to the ACLU for Covid in the Illinois Department of Corrections

Dr. Adler still works as a full-time practicing physician and has helped attorneys and insurance companies in Emergency Medicine, Nursing Home Medicine, Public Health and Hospital Administration since 1985. He has been involved in Plaintiff litigation in many states including against Rikers Island, NY and Cook County Jail and is available to review and consult on clinical Correctional/Jail/Prison cases for attorneys for both Plaintiff and Defense.

Services:

COVID-19 Preparation & Response
Medical Oversight of Federal Consent Decrees
Screen Cases for Merit
Review, Analyze and interpret Medical Records
Provide Basic or Comprehensive Written Reports
Interpret Standards of Care, Deviation and Adherences as they Relate to Correctional Health Care
Develop Chronological Time Lines
Policy and Procedure Development

• Dr. Adler's Curriculum Vitae

Yolanda Anderson, RN, BSN, CEN, CLNC is a Registered Nurse and has been working in the Emergency Department for more than 25 years. A Certified Legal Nurse Consultant with a detail-oriented approach, Ms. Anderson is knowledgeable about all aspects of Hospital Care and Standards of Care for Physicians, Nurses and Ancillary Personnel.

Ms. Anderson's background experience includes work in the Emergency Department of Los Angeles County, USC Medical Center, a level I Trauma Center and in the Emergency Department at Saint Anthony Hospital Central in Denver, Colorado, a level I Trauma Center where she helped initiate the Hyperbaric Medicine program. For 15 years, she worked as a staff RN, Charge RN and Assistant Nurse Manager in the Emergency Department at Littleton Adventist Hospital - Littleton, Colorado, a level II Trauma Center. There, she helped with the expansion and reconstruction of the current Emergency Department facility.

Ms. Anderson has been retained as an Expert 27 times. Her litigation support services include chart review for merit, chronologies, medical care research, Independent Medical Assessments, and more. Ms. Anderson's services are available to attorneys for both Plaintiff and Defense.

Areas of Expertise:

Emergency Department Care
Inpatient Hospital Care
Trauma, Cardiac, Neurological Emergency
Adult, Pediatric, and Infant Care

Triage & Documentation

Nursing Home Care

Electronic Medical Records

Worker's Compensation

View Yolanda Anderson's Consulting Profile.

• Yolanda Anderson's Curriculum Vitae

Expert Witness: Retained in Washington, D.C., and over 25 states as an expert in hospital administration who could render opinion after assessing medical records, hospital policies and procedures, medical staff bylaws and regulations, JCAHO standards, depositions, etc. Served as Expert Witness for Plaintiff and Defense.

Consultant: Has assisted hospitals and health systems with accelerating their performance improvement efforts. Speaks, writes and consults on ethical issues in health care.

Background Highlights:

Consultant, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the health system.
Executive Director of two academic medical centers: Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, Stanford University Hospital and Clinics at Stanford.
Past chairman of the national advisory board for the University of Chicago’s Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.
An author of over 175 publications, he has written articles for USA Today, Health Management Quarterly, Trustee, Health Progress, the Journal of Health Administration Education, Frontiers of Health Services Management, Bioethics Forum, Modern Healthcare, the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Stanford Medicine, and Healthcare Executive among others.
Co-editor of Management Mistakes in Healthcare: Identification, Correction, and Prevention, published by Cambridge University Press in 2005.
Co-editor of Managing Ethically: An Executive's Guide, published by Health Administration Press in 2001, and a second edition, Managing Healthcare Ethically: An Executive's Guide was published in 2010.
Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, a past member of its Leadership Advisory Committee, and a consultant on health care management ethics since 1994.
Served as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Ethics.
Recipient of American Hospital Association's Award of Honor in 2009 and an Albert Schweitzer Leadership Award in 2012.
Faculty appointments held at Harvard, UCLA, Stanford, Emory, the University of California, and Seton Hall University.
Bachelor of Science, Master of Public Health, and Doctor of Public Health degrees are from the University of California, Berkeley.

• View Dr. Hofmann's Curriculum Vitae

• Dr. Paul Hofmann's Biography

3/19/2020 · Medical Malpractice

Revisiting the Executive's Role In Malpractice Cases: Reducing the Incidence of Medical Malpractice

By: Paul B. Hofmann, DrPH, FACHE

Although there are still too many instances when clinical mistakes are denied, timely disclosures and apologies are not made, results of investigations are not shared and compensation offers are not extended, more hospitals are taking a less adversarial position.

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10/25/2013 · Healthcare Facilities - Hospitals

A Better Response to Clinical Errors

By: Paul B. Hofmann, DrPH, FACHE

In 1989, I agreed for the first time to serve as an expert witness in a case brought by the family of a terminally ill pregnant patient who had a cesarean section performed against her will in a prominent university teaching hospital. Since then, whether retained as a plaintiff or defense expert, I have been surprised and disturbed by the number and types of cases in which hospitals and other health care facilities have been sued.

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12/21/2010 · Medical Malpractice

The Executive's Role In Malpractice Cases: Ethical As Well As Financial And Legal Factors Should Be Considered

By: Paul B. Hofmann, DrPH, FACHE

Progress has been made on improving patient safety and reducing clinical mistakes, but errors happen and, in spite of everything, patients are still harmed.

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3/30/2004 · Professional Malpractice

Management Mistakes in Healthcare: A Disturbing Silence

By: Paul B. Hofmann, Dr PH, FACHE

The belated but formal acknowledgement of medical errors and their impact has been well documented.1 Curiously, the topic of management or executive mistakes in healthcare is not raised in professional meetings nor, until recently, addressed by an article in health administration journals

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Managing Healthcare Ethically: An Executive's Guide (2nd Ed)

Paul Hofmann (co-editor)

Ethical dilemmas are common in healthcare management. Although there is no handbook providing absolute solutions to ethics challenges, healthcare leaders can seek guidance and insight from others who have tackled similar issues. This book provides advice and inspiration from healthcare executives, ethicists, scholars, educators, and consultants. This collection of ethics columns from Healthcare Executive magazine will guide healthcare managers and executives in making personal and organizational decisions.

Management Mistakes in Healthcare : Identification, Correction and Prevention

Paul Hofmann (co-editor)

While increasing attention has been directed recently toward recognizing and reducing medical errors, healthcare organizations have yet to benefit from a similar scrutiny of management mistakes.

Megan M. Hamilton, MS, CCC-SLP earned her Master of Science degree from Marquette University and holds a lean six sigma green belt from Purdue University as well as a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA). Megan currently provides consultation to hospital speech language pathology and serves as a forensic medical SLP throughout the United States. Megan has held positions as direct care provider, site manager, regional vice president, and division manager of clinical education for national rehabilitation providers in long term care, sub acute, and pediatric care. She brings over 30 years of experience to her clients.

Litigation Support - No healthcare provider can prevent aspiration and/or choking for all patients at all times, but all SLPs can be expected to practice within accepted standards of care. Megan's exhaustive review of case materials can determine whether diagnosis, evaluation, recommendations and discharge determination were based upon sound clinical reasoning to mitigate adverse outcomes and facilitate improvement. If standards of care were met, Megan provides evidence-based opinions of such. When care failed to meet accepted standards, Megan can illustrate how the SLP provider deviated from standards. She can assist in determining if substandard care contributed to negative outcomes including suspected choking event, aspiration, dehydration, health decline or death.

Areas of Expertise:

Speech Therapy
Speech Language Pathology
Swallowing
Oral Dysphagia
Pharyngeal Dysphagia
Esophageal Dysphagia
TBI
Expressive Language
Receptive Language
Parkinsons
Choking
Cognition
Dehydration
COVIDs impact on communication, dehydration and swallowing

Dementia
Diet Texture
Liquid Viscosity
Aphasia
Apraxia
Dysarthria
Developmental Disabilities
Stroke
CVA
Aspiration
Aspiration Pneumonia
End of Life Nutrition
Executive Skills
Standards of Care

Megan has been an instructor in the areas of cognition, dysphagia / swallowing, end of life nutrition, and Medicare regulatory compliance. She has presented at conferences for the American Occupational Therapy Association and local Speech Language Hearing Associations as an employee of national Rehab companies.

The Lios Manhe (pronounced LIZ munee) mission is to be a trusted partner to plaintiff or defense by providing thorough analysis and independent opinions supported by science and based upon evidence collected.

• Megan M. Hamilton's Curriculum Vitae

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10/22/2024 · Speech-Language Pathology

Instrumental And Clinical Evaluation Of Swallowing In The Analysis Of A Choking Death