The start of a new year offers us a great time to reflect on the past as we also look forward to the future, and the following thoughts seemed to resonate with me as we continue to rise above and find the wonder that surrounds us. Don’t stress over missed opportunities, because they probably weren’t … Read More
Author: Cindy Sawyer
2022 Risk Prevention Webinar Series
Our Inspirien Risk team is excited to share our 2022 Risk Prevention Strategy with our partners and members. This process is designed to provide you with education, resources, and best practices to help you mitigate, and hopefully, prevent risks in your organization. The Strategy encompasses an organization-wide risk plan to identify and proactively address issues … Read More
HWCF Awards up to $100K in Grant Dollars in 2022
The Healthcare Workers’ Compensation Fund (HWCF), managed by Inspirien, is upping the ante in 2022 by awarding up to $100K in Grant Dollars. This is an additional $50K to help decrease the number and severity of workers’ compensation claims while also improving employee and patient safety. Since the grant program’s inception in 2017, HWCF has awarded over … Read More
Benefits of Membership in the Healthcare Worker’s Compensation Fund
Don’t let your healthcare clients miss the opportunity to earn dividends! It’s that time of year! Renewals are January 1st for Alabama Funds, and HWCF is no exception. In the video below, Jim Trull shares more on the dividends and other benefits of membership. He also goes over the Renewal Process, New Submissions and Rates for … Read More
Life of the Remote Worker – 5 Tips to Stay Productive and Connected!
COVID realities have brought some difficulties but have also offered a few silver linings. For one, work has enabled me to relocate closer to family. Through the course of the pandemic, I’ve gone from working remotely, to hybrid, full-time back in the office and now back to full-time remote, only in a different city and … Read More
Five Tips for Effective Workers’ Compensation Claims Management
Your employee is injured on the job, now what? Below are five tips for effective claims management: Always investigate after an injury. When one is reported, it is important to get complete documentation of how the employee’s injury occurred. This includes obtaining written witness statements and checking video surveillance if available. Make sure to share … Read More
#NAHQ NEXT 2021
NAHQ’s annual conference, once again offered in a virtual format, provided healthcare leaders an opportunity to learn and strengthen their personal toolbox with competencies, processes and lessons learned from others to build quality across the healthcare spectrum. Acknowledging that “it has been another year of relentless challenges and an abundance of new opportunities for delivering … Read More
Building Resiliency for Healthcare Professionals
With the increasing issues surrounding stress and burnout in our healthcare professionals, the Inspirien team has developed a “Building Resiliency for Healthcare Professionals” toolkit. This toolkit is designed to provide guidance to help individuals, leaders, and organizations recognize stress and burnout in their team members and offer actionable steps including prevention planning and intervention if … Read More
Market Forces Bring a Hardening Market
Inspirien sat down with London-based Simon Mills, Broker and Healthcare Practice Lead at Lockton Re, and Paul Sandi, Head of Casualty Reinsurance at Canopius Group, to discuss how a hardening market is impacting reinsurance — and vice versa. Reinsurance, or when an insurance company is itself insured, is a level of protection reserved for high-dollar … Read More
Recognizing and Preventing Burnout in Healthcare
By Wendy Shurette, Risk Consultant for Inspirien and the Healthcare Workers’ Compensation Fund For over 20 years, I regularly heard from co-workers, “I am so burnt out”, “I need a vacation”, or “TGIF, I’m exhausted”. Healthcare workers are no strangers to burnout. With the onslaught of covid and the extended length of the pandemic, we … Read More