Fiscal accountability through effective risk management

This article conceptualizes the role that risk management should take in therapeutic recreation to help attain fiscal accountability. The public is becoming increasingly aware of risk or harm to patients associated with medical care and is demanding a higher level of care. A litigious public has created a tremendous amount of caution within the health care community. This caution often has led to a mandated conservative approach to therapeutic recreation programs. Therapeutic recreation is faced with the task of designing risk management programs which will lessen financial concerns while creating a safe and effective treatment environment.