The Sullivan Group has created a system of risk and medical error reduction  that has resulted in dramatic reductions in the number of malpractice cases for major medical and insurance organizations.  One client recently removed over $50,000,000 in reserves due to the reduction in emergency medicine malpractice claims over the last three years.  Patient safety and medical error reduction turn into real dollars for insurance companies.  The Sullivan Group is leading the way in this critical endeavor. 

TSG founder, Dr. Daniel Sullivan, MD, JD, FACEP, is a board-certified emergency physician with more than 25 years of emergency medical experience.  Dr. Sullivan’s education and experience as both a physician and attorney has made him an expert in patient safety and risk management.  In his ongoing quest to improve healthcare and limit malpractice litigation, Dr. Sullivan assembled an outstanding team of medical, risk-reduction and IT professionals dedicated to perfecting a system solution to medical error reduction and improved patient safety. 

Using proven risk reduction strategies from risk-sensitive industries, The Sullivan Group created the medical cycle of risk and safety: web-based standardized risk and safety education, real-time risk clinical tools used at the bedside, and a web-based clinical & system performance audit.  The airline industry utilizes this approach to create safe air travel.  The Sullivan Group utilizes this approach to change clinical behavior, reduce errors, and save lives.  The system is built on evidence-based medicine, recognized best practices, and our proprietary medical error and adverse outcome database.

Over 600 clients have used TSG’s integrated system to realize measurable improvements in performance. The system solution enhances practitioner performance, improves patient safety, reduces medical errors, and helps practitioners create defensible medical records.

HCA is among TSG’s clients, and the VP of Risk and Insurance, James Hinton, credits TSG’s risk management services to HCA’s 38% reduction in emergency department related claims from 2001 to 2004.  This reduction has translated into a significant increase in HCA’s bottom line over the last few years.  That trend continues through 2005.  Read a description of the HCA program as published in Business Insurance in April of 2005. 

The key to the system is the ability to predict risk.  The Sullivan Group quantifies an ED’s level of risk by evaluating over 150 risk indicators in the 15 clinical entities that contribute to 80% of all EM malpractice claims.  A careful analysis in over 200 hospitals demonstrates that scoring on the performance evaluation tool correlates directly with medical error reduction and reduction in malpractice claims.  It is overwhelmingly clear that implementation of The Sullivan Group’s risk initiative improves clinical performance and documentation, and reliably results in malpractice claim reduction.  The Sullivan Group’s web-based performance evaluation tool predicts risk of medical errors, adverse outcome, and related malpractice claims.

The Sullivan Group owns the world’s largest risk and safety database focused specifically on patient safety, medical errors, and adverse outcomes in emergency medicine.  Other medical databases are currently being developed.  Utilize the TSG database to compare your clients to the national profile.  High performers are a good risk.  Low performers can become a good risk by implementing our proven programs.  It is possible to continuously monitor the improvement of your clients as they evolve their risk management competency.

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