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Surviving the Acute Care Environment as a Risk Manager

Health care risk management is a very diverse field and when you meet one risk manager, you meet one risk manager. One size does not fit all. This podcast series will look to discuss risks inherent to a variety of areas in health care. The seventh of the series will explore the unique challenges of health care risk management for those who manage and mitigate risks in the acute care setting.
Surviving the Acute Care Environment as a Risk Manager
Featuring:
Elizabeth Huntington, BSN, MSN, JD
Beth Huntington is the Corporate Risk Officer at Baptist Health in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is responsible for managing all areas of Enterprise Risk for the largest healthcare provider in the state of Arkansas. Baptist Health is a faith-based, non-profit health system comprised of 9 hospitals, 636 employed physicians and 90 outpatient clinics located throughout central and western Arkansas. In her role, Beth is directly responsible for risk finance, litigation management, clinical risk management and patient safety. She is on the Board of Managers of the Diamond Risk LLC captive.

Previously, Beth held positions in the insurance and brokerage industries as Regional Vice President at MMI Companies in Chicago and Atlanta, Vice President Risk Management at MCIC Risk Retention Group in New York City and Client Service Consultant at Willis Corroon in Nashville. Her passion is health care operations and she has served as Director of Risk Management at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin, the Director of Clinical Risk at SCL Health in Denver, Colorado and the Vice President of Risk Management at Baylor Scott & White in Dallas, Texas.
Prior to her risk management career, she was a Pediatric and Neonatal ICU nurse for 10 years at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and The Cleveland Clinic.

Beth’s areas of expertise include, risk finance, litigation management, Captive management, patient safety, and enterprise risk. She has Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in nursing from Case Western Reserve University and a Juris Doctorate Degree from the University of Iowa College of Law.