November 2000
The Director - Features
Insuring Your Embalming
Eight ways that embalming case reports can improve your funeral home and protect it from litigation
Funeral directors spend hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars each month on insurance to protect their business from potential harm. Much like insurance, embalming case reports can save funeral service businesses from potential legal or procedural harm.
Insuring Your Embalming explains the purpose of embalming case reports and how they can provide insurance via a "paper trail." The article details how embalming case reports can provide evidence of competency, establish a case history, identify the embalmer, allow procedures performed to be reviewed, report the embalming results, and serve as a catalyst for continuing education. It also explains how embalming reports can assist in reviewing employee performance and keeping track of chemical supplies. The article also discusses embalming-report maintenance.
The article was written by Thomas Shaw and Cydney Griffith. Shaw is an assistant professor in the Mortuary Science and Funeral Service Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in Carbondale, Illinois. Griffith is an associate professor in the Mortuary Science and Funeral Service Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in Carbondale, Illinois.
