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Please fill out the form to access our "Predicting & "Preventing Workplace Violence in Healthcare" recorded webinar.
(45 minutes running time)

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This informative, hands-on webinar covers …

  • Innovative solutions to achieve regulatory compliance with the new workplace violence standards
  • How to develop and enact workplace violence policies
  • How to train and educate staff on the dangers of WPV
  • How to create best practices strategies and a safe reporting structure for employees
  • What tactics can be taken to de-escalate harmful situations

Co-hosted by Kimberly Baer, a 16 year veteran as the System Manager of Regulatory & Accreditation Compliance at Southern Illinois Healthcare. Kimberly developed the Workplace Violence Committee three years ago when the CDC and OSHA began to publish increased statistics around healthcare worker assaults and the impact on healthcare staff. The SIH Workplace Violence program continues to expand its work to improve patient and worker safety.

Kimberly will offer her expertise and innovative solutions to achieve regulatory compliance with the new workplace violence standards coming from the Joint Commission. These new standards could be published as soon as July 2021.

Kimberly currently leads several strategic projects related to regulatory compliance. Activities and projects include but not are not limited to: 

  • Continued Survey Readiness Committees
  • Inpatient Pain Management Team (Opioid stewardship/pain assessment, re-assessment)
  • Restraint Committee 
  • Workplace Violence Committee
  • Clinical Performance Improvement Council (CPIC) 
  • Coordination and facilitation of annual Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) processes
  • Weekly tracer activities (robust schedule for three hospitals and 26 off-site locations)
  • Organization of annual self-assessment of the Intracycle Monitoring (ICM) for The Joint Commission
  • Direct responsibility for the restructure of the environment of care duties 
  • Direct responsibility for the Emergency Management for SIH System 

Kimberly is currently a resident of Murphysboro, IL and is married to Bob Baer of the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Physics Department and has two children.