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Risk Management & Patient Safety

To manage risk in today’s busy medical practice, you have to anticipate it. When you know what to expect, you can prepare for it. Risk management is about learning from previous mistakes, preparing for the unexpected and preventing it from happening. Understanding patient safety is a forward-looking approach, proactively making sure your practice is doing all it can to make sure your patients are treated with the utmost care.

Your Risk Management and Patient Safety consultants at MAG Mutual understand the perils of a medical practice. By carefully studying how and why claims occur, we can help doctors and their staffs across our 27 insured specialties, prevent them.

Welcome to MAG Mutual's Risk Management and Patient Safety web site. We invite your questions. If you can’t find what you need, just email us or call us at 1-800-282-4882.

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If you have recently participated in a practice assessment performed by one of our Risk Management/Patient SafetyConsultants, we would appreciate your input. It will provide us with valuable information on how we can serve you better."

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