Additional Benefits

Online Tools, Newsletters, And Personalized Assistance To Help Make It Easier For You To Focus On Patient Care

You can access or request copies of the following risk reduction tools and resources from the Ob-Gyn Risk Alliance section of the ProAssurance secure services portal.

Ob Tool Kit

Forms, Guidelines, Policies, and Procedures

• C-Section Hospital Documentation Template
• Cyber Liability Checklist
  
• Shoulder Dystocia Hospital Documentation Template
• Ob Risk Assessment Checklist
• Diagnostic Test and Referral Tracking Form
• Chaperone Guideline
• Postnatal Depression Screening Guideline
• Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
• Patient Satisfaction Survey Policy
• Patient Satisfaction Survey
• Withdrawal from Care or Terminating the Ob-Physician-Patient Relationship Guide 
• Withdrawal from Care or Terminating the Ob-Physician-Patient Relationship Letter

Skills Checklists

• Ob-Gyn Licensed Employee Skills Checklist
• Ob-Gyn Unlicensed Employee Skills Checklist

Informed Consent Forms

• Genetic Testing Checklist and Consent
• C-Section
• Hysterectomy and Myomectomy Utilizing Power Morcellation
• Labor Induction
• Vaginal Birth Delivery/Instrument Assisted Delivery
• VBAC

Ob-Gyn BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 Genetic Testing Tool Kit

Without question, a clear and present concern for the Obstetrics and Gynecology specialty is the millions of patients who meet the criteria for cancer-related genetic testing, but who have not been tested. This represents a potential overwhelming liability exposure. According to Physician Insurance Association of America’s (PIAA) closed claims data, delay in diagnosis of breast cancer is one of the most common and expensive types of medical malpractice lawsuits for ob-gyn physicians.

As our ongoing commitment to provide you with relevant risk resources, The BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 Genetic Testing Tool Kit is now available. Discover how failure to obtain BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 genetic testing may represent an area of potential liability in allegations of delayed breast cancer diagnoses by reviewing PIAA’s article entitled “Failure to Recommend Genetic Testing: The Next Wave of Medical Professional Liability Lawsuits?”. The tool kit also contains additional links to documents, forms, and patient education materials you may find useful as you provide patient care.

• BRCA Genetic Screening Criteria
• BRCA Genetic Testing Checklist
• Laboratory Quality Checklist for BRCA Genetic Testing
• Informed Consent - BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genetic Mutation Testing
• Direct-to-Consumer BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 Testing

OB Risk Management Guidelines

These guidelines help you and your staff reduce Ob-related liability risk and improve the defensibility of potential claims. Download a copy in the Ob-Gyn Risk Alliance section of the ProAssurance secure services portal. 

Newsletters

You receive regular communications to help keep you abreast of the latest information and risk trends affecting your specialty. Our specialty-specific newsletter, Vital Signs, includes closed-claim reviews and illustrates risk factors that prompt claims.

Sign in to the Ob-Gyn Risk Alliance section of the ProAssurance secure services portal to review back issues of the Ob-Gyn Vital Signs newsletter.

Personalized Assistance

ProAssurance’s Risk Management Consultants are just a phone call or email away. Please contact us for personalized assistance and answers to your risk questions at 844-223-9648 or email RiskAdvisor@ProAssurance.com.

ACOG Materials And Fetal Monitoring Books

You also can request ACOG materials and/or one or both of the following books (limited to $200 worth of materials or books annually for each member physician):

1. Mosby’s Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring: A Multidisciplinary Approach
2. Electronic Fetal Monitoring Certification Exam Review

Please call ProAssurance Risk Management department at
844-223-9648 or email
RiskAdvisor@ProAssurance.com
to obtian there materials.

Personalized Assistance

ProAssurance’s risk management experts are just a phone call or email away. Please contact us for personalized assistance and answers to your risk questions at 844-223-9648 or email 
RiskAdvisor@ProAssurance.com.