Our new Recovering Worker

You will notice CompAlliance has an updated image gracing our new Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn pages. This image reflects an exciting transition within the workers' compensation industry! In the workers' compensation industry, we have in my opinion, always been person-centered in our approach to providing care for the recovering [...]

2019-09-13T13:41:13-05:00May 29th, 2019|

Positivity Flows from Alternative Transitional Duty

When we discuss the CompAlliance Alternative Transitional Duty Program (ATD) with our client partners, one of the advantages we discuss is the positivity that flows with assignment into our ATD program.  The injured worker is working in an environment with other volunteers that WANT to be there, and are [...]

2019-09-02T14:30:04-05:00May 28th, 2019|

It is Time to Nominate the Best Workers’ Compensation Blogs of 2019

I was reading Bob’s Cluttered Desk and noticed an article encouraging a WorkersCompensation.com Best Blog Contest. This competition is to recognize those of us in the workers’ compensation community who provide “top quality, cutting edge, informative content”. Or as Bob puts it, “or at least those of you who [...]

2019-09-02T14:31:22-05:00May 24th, 2019|

Part 3 The Ethical Responsibility to Manage Pain and the Suffering it Causes

In Part 1 of this series I touched on the ANA Position Statement providing ethical guidance and support to nurses and some of the responsibilities a nurse has when managing a patient in pain. I was asked after publishing Part 1 why a Case Manager would be responsible for [...]

2019-09-02T14:33:00-05:00May 20th, 2019|

Part 2 The Ethical Responsibility to Manage Pain and the Suffering it Causes

Yesterday I touched on the ANA Position Statement providing ethical guidance and support to nurses and some of the responsibilities a nurse has when managing a patient in pain. I was asked today why a Case Manager would be responsible for assisting in the management of pain, to describe [...]

2020-06-18T13:03:52-05:00May 16th, 2019|

Part 1 The Ethical Responsibility to Manage Pain and the Suffering it Causes

I was reading an ANA Position Statement providing ethical guidance and support to nurses as they fulfill their responsibility to provide optimal care to persons experiencing pain. We in the workers’ compensation industry have participated fully in the national debate on the (in)appropriate use of opioids for pain management. [...]

2020-06-18T13:04:09-05:00May 15th, 2019|

Web Portals: The Buyer-User Disconnect

Written by Jay Garrard, VP of Operations, CompAlliance, Western Region. Joe Paduda wrote a spot-on article about the “buyer-user disconnect” the other day on his blog, Managed Care Matters, in which he examined issues surrounding the use of vendor portals. While there are a lot of “portals” out there, [...]

2020-06-18T13:05:32-05:00May 2nd, 2019|
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