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Adv. Alona Sigler-Harcavi

is an attorney specializing in healthcare risk management and the prevention and handling of sentinel events in medicine, with a private practice focused on advising medical institutions and organizations – both public and private – as well as professional medical, nursing and paramedical staff.

Alona Sigler-Harcavi has more than 20 years of extensive unique experience handling healthcare risk management, advancing patient safety, quality-of-care improvement, professional liability in medicine, and many other diverse aspects of the medicolegal realm, where medicine and law interface and interact.

Alona Sigler-Harcavi has an extensive and intimate association with the different elements of the Israeli healthcare systems, on all levels – and a wide perspective as well as valuable insights into the challenges they face.

Alona Sigler-Harcavi's experience and expertise are based on the many roles she performed over the years in the medicolegal field, both in the public and the private sectors, advising to and representing a varied clientele, such as: the Israeli Ministry of Health, INBAL (the Israeli Governmental Insurance Company), public and private medical institutions, professional unions, and professional staff members of all categories.

Alona Sigler-Harcavi has had a major role in promoting many disciplinary and multidisciplinary issues on a national level, as well as involvement in precedential legal proceedings.

Alona Sigler-Harcavi views her work as a calling – and is always working, teaching and writing with the intention of furthering her causes:

  • Advancing knowledge and awareness with respect to healthcare risk management and sentinel events, across all disciplines and levels;
  •  Making relevant legal and judicial precedents and policies user-friendly to medical professionals of all levels, and operatively implementing such policies in the field, for the benefit of minimizing risks and preventing sentinel events;
  •  Improving organizational culture in healthcare, both managerial and professional;
  •  Strengthening communication and collaboration between staff and management;
  •  Minimizing the disparities between procedures and protocols and their actual implementation in healthcare;
  •  Maximizing insights from sentinel events and implementing said insights in the field;
  •  And more…

Examples of Alona Sigler-Harcavi's professional undertakings:

  • Lecturing and training – in varying formats and scopes – audiences of all disciplines, ranks and sizes: medical institutions, professional unions, healthcare schools, risk management professionals' training, local and international conferences, advanced courses, advanced degrees, etc.
  • Organizing, leading and lecturing in risk management courses, conferences, seminars and events, both domestic and international.
  • Representing medical staff and management personnel (public and private sectors) after sentinel events, before review boards, inquiry boards and professional responsibility and conduct boards (governmental and institutional).
  • Advising with respect to all aspects relating to minimizing and handling medical sentinel events, proactive and reactive risk management, insuring patient care quality and safety – and initiating, managing and accompanying projects in these areas of expertise. This applies to all governmental and private healthcare institutions and bodies, and to all ranks of personnel.
  • Furthermore, since 2006, Alona Sigler-Harcavi has been accompanying and advising INBAL (the Israeli Governmental Insurance Company) in all medicolegal matters, risk management and sentinel events, as an independent external counsel.

 

Adv. Alona Sigler Harcavi

is an attorney specializing in healthcare risk management and the prevention and handling of sentinel events in medicine, with a private practice focused on advising medical institutions and organizations – both public and private – as well as professional medical, nursing and paramedical staff.

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