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Information
- Faculty:
- Patrick J. Hurd
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 7 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Nov 20, 2014
Description
Without the proper legal awareness needed to stay in compliance, you may face grave legal and financial consequences. This seminar will show you how to continue to help the people you’ve been trained to help while still protecting yourself from many legal pitfalls. If you attend only one seminar this year, make it this one.
Join attorney, Patrick J. Hurd, for an entertaining and enlightening recording and leave with a greater understanding of the latest Virginia laws as they relate to behavioral health. You will take home practical strategies to minimize and manage legal and ethical risks and you will learn how to immediately implement these risk-reducing strategies into your practice.
Outline
- HIPAA/HI-TECH – Impact on Mental Health Providers
- Confdentiality of Mental Health Records
- The Duty to Warn in Virginia
- Balancing the Rights of Minors and Parents
- Professional Ethics & Boundary Issues
- Responding to Police Inquiries, Attorney Questions, and Subpoenas
- ECOs, TDOs, and Involuntary Commitments in Virginia
Faculty
Patrick J. Hurd is managing principal of Hurd Law & Consulting, LLC. He serves as a lawyer and consultant to healthcare providers on a broad range of regulatory compliance, risk management, ethics and liability matters with a special emphasis on legal and ethical issues. He is a former CEO of a not-for-profit organization with two health centers providing reproductive health and family planning services to women, men and teens. Mr. Hurd also served as senior counsel in Healthcare Law for a national law firm, based in its Norfolk office and is a former director of risk management and in-house lawyer for a health system with a 170+ bed acute care hospital. He received his J.D. degree from George Washington University National Law Center and is licensed to practice law in Virginia and D.C.
