Rebecca Adelman, Founder at Adelman Law Firm

The Risky Health Care Business

What she does: Rebecca is the founder of Adelman Law Firm in Tennessee. Her practice is concentrated in healthcare and insurance defense and business litigation, and includes representation of insurance companies and long-term care providers and their insurers - both regionally and nationally. The firm also provides claims management services to senior living insurance companies. Rebecca is involved in state and national legislative matters on behalf of the healthcare industry and serves as Legal Advisor for the American Assisted Living Nurses Association and the National Association of Health Care Assistants. She founded the National Long-Term Care Defense Summit, co-founded the Adelman-Mettle Palliative Care Alliance, and is a member of Claims and Litigation Management Alliance. In addition, Rebecca is a published author and national speaker and contributor.

On risk: "Risk in senior living is multifaceted, there are so many aspects of senior living … How we define, view, and think about risk, really depends on that we all agree there are varying types of risks in senior living. There's obvious risks of injury, or just an incident and an outcome, a negative outcome, but then there are a lot of other risks, emerging risks, and some smoldering risks, all sorts of risks embedded in all of these little subparts of the ecosystem … There's so much at stake where risk is concerned in senior living that the importance of considering it cannot be overemphasized. We need to really appreciate how risk is managed in organizations because risk management is everyone's business, it's everyone's responsibility … From my vantage point along the whole risk spectrum, I'm showing up at the 9s and the 10s and moving down the risk spectrum into the 6s and 7s. The real place for everyone to begin in its least complex form, with all types of risk management, to mitigate risks, to hopefully eliminate risk, certainly to identify it so it doesn't come up, is really when it's in the 1s and the 2s. Proactivity would be the word of the day … Here's the ticket, the real small key that opens up the big door is implementation. You've got to implement across your organization."

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