Register now for Sorry Works! Disclosure, Apology & Relationship: Prevent Medical Malpractice Claims at www.brainshark.com/HASC/sorryworks. This half-day program presented by HASC will take place Monday, Sept. 26 at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center.

The program will focus on how post-adverse event communication drives success of health care organizations and professionals from a liability risk perspective. Attendees will hear about the liability landscape for 2011 and will learn “how” to disclose. The program will specifically cover who should disclose, when disclosure should be made and what should be said. It includes video presentations showing positive and negative examples of disclosure and provides opportunities to role-play potential scenarios.

Participants will learn to use skills and strategies to enhance post-adverse event communication; will hear about the disclosure continuum; and will learn the difference between “sorry” and “apology.”

The course will be taught by Douglas B. Wojcieszak, a disclosure training consultantand creator of the Sorry Works! Coalition, a national organization advocating full disclosure as a middle-ground solution to the medical malpractice crisis; and Peter A. Schwartz, MD, of Stevens & Lee, who assists the firm’s health care medical malpractice defense lawyers with clinical case analysis.

Program cost is $165 for HASC hospital members and $195 for non-members.