Risk Management

Risk management is a systematic process of identifying, assessing, and reducing risk associated with patient, employee or visitor injuries, property loss or damages, and other sources of potential legal liability. Also controlling cost, enhancing reporting to management, and a better use of resources. Categories of health center risk include:

  • Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) — A comprehensive risk management of the organization from the top including financial and business viability.
  • Facility Management and Safety — such as loss or damage to buildings and equipment (including Risk Management Information System (RMIS)) and property, harm to staff and patients, and theft or dishonesty, emergencies internal and external, fire safety, medical equipment maintenance plan and maintenance plan for each of the utility system.
  • Legal liability — such as quality of care issues, legal responsibilities of employers to employees (state workers’ compensation), liabilities related to contracts, and liabilities under which a health center can be sued for alleged injuries to patients, employees, and others.
  • Regulatory — such as federal, state, and local regulations and including a corporate compliance program that satisfies the Office of the Inspector General guidelines.
  • Health care provider specific risks — such as medical staff credentialing, misdiagnosis, informed consent issues, medical records, job description, and trainings.

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ALERT: GSA OIG investigates fraudulent activity on SAM.gov. New verification requirement adds two-week delay to organization registrations

The General Services Administration (GSA) System for Award Management (SAM) is the portal by which all grantee organizations register their Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS). This is a necessary step in the grants application submission process at HRSA. GSA deployed a new requirement for entities as of March 22, 2018. The new requirement requires all new or renewal registrations to include an original, notarized letter. This is a result of an active investigation by the GSA Office of Inspector General (OIG) on alleged fraudulent activity on SAM.gov.   HRSA is recommending entities review their registration information and verify their financial information. More details are available on the General Services Administration’s website.

For more information, please contact Gervean Williams, Director, Health Center Financial Training, at (301) 347-0400.