Medical Staff Articles by Topic: Medical Staff Bylaws
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Medical Staff Briefing is a monthly newsletter for medical staff leaders and medical staff services...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, November 11, 2009
One of the best ways to ensure that the MEC is living up to the medical staff’s and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, November 11, 2009
Because so much work goes into training new committee members, keep existing members as long as...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, November 11, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 4, 2009
HCPro wants to hear from you! Every month, we post a new interactive poll question on our Web site...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Medical Staff Briefing acts as a support system by providing time-saving tools, expert advice, and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 7, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Your facility may need to rethink its joint ventures before October 1. That’s the date the...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
If you read news reports of the troubled brachytherapy program at the Philadelphia VA Medical...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
vThe standard formerly known as MS.1.20 is on the move again
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Inside:
What docs need to know about restrictive clauses
Joint Commission task force inches...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, September 23, 2009
At the age of 65, practitioners shall complete an annual examination that addresses their physical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 9, 2009
The CEO, acting for the board and after considering the recommendations of the president of the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 9, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Inside:
Five steps to crafting foolproof contracts with independent groups
What your medical...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
As physicians increasingly opt to work for independent companies that contract with hospitals to...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
DNV survey activities are not very different than those of The Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Culture is extraordinarily powerful and has the potential to either fuel or undermine your...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 34, August 19, 2009
Most medical staffs have traditionally allowed any member to suggest or submit a proposed bylaws...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 33, August 12, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 29, July 21, 2009
There’s still time to enter this month’s contest for two free seats at the Greeley...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 15, 2009
We know budgets are tight, so in an effort to make the upcoming Greeley Medical Staff Institute...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 15, 2009
The Health Care Quality Improvement Act allows the use of non-physicians on a hearing panel...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 15, 2009
Vast pay discrepancies for medical directorships exist depending on specialty, region, and type of...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 15, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 8, 2009
No, unless otherwise required by state law, says Claude (Bud) Pate, REHS, vice president of content...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 27, July 1, 2009
You’ve designed a physician reporting mechanism and are getting ready to distribute your...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, June 24, 2009
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston is launching a one-year Open Notes campaign, which...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, June 24, 2009
A key part to any credentialing application is the attestation, acknowledgement, and release forms...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, June 24, 2009
Comparing information that physicians have submitted in the past with current disclosures is one...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
By having your medical staff members fill out a conflict of interest disclosure form every year...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
With physicians working longer hours and also devoting more time for family, they don’t have...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 21, May 27, 2009
They could, depending on how your bylaws are constructed. First, it’s important to understand...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
A number of factors are driving physicians to focus less on practicing in the hospital and more on...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
When reviewing bylaws, I often see confusion regarding emergency and disaster privileges. Many...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 6, 2009
A report issued by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimates that half of all medical research...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
Clinical observers are a category of practitioners that organizations tend to overlook. It is...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
A hospital should never make an improper report to the National Practitioner Data Bank...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
The words you choose can make the difference between well-written bylaws that protect the medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 12, March 25, 2009
Your medical staff should have a policy that places the burden on the applicant to prove his or her...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 12, March 25, 2009
Medical staff voting methods are changing due to electronic ballots and no-action-required votes.
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 11, March 18, 2009
Do you get confused between a sanction and probation? Reprimand and warning? Greeley expert...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 10, March 10, 2009
Several readers responded to last week's "Tip of the week" wondering where they could...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 9, March 3, 2009
Medical staffs have traditionally placed H&P requirement language in their rules and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
Whether a decision is considered a "restriction" is sometimes in the eye of the beholder...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
Theresa J. Rambosek, a healthcare attorney with Seattle-based Bennett, Bigelow & Leedom shares...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 1, January 7, 2009
It is often most practical for the medical executive committee to assign the duty of...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
As of January 1, 2009, The Joint Commission will require hospitals to develop a formal process for...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, December 3, 2008
Hospitals should have policies in place that govern medical students who participate in training...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 19, 2008
Mary Hoppa, MD, MBA, CMSL, discusses the importance of updating medical staff documents, including...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, November 5, 2008
Last week, we defined and described the purpose of a precautionary suspension. This week, we...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 29, 2008
Many hospitals have adopted the term precautionary suspension to better reflect the nature of a...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 29, 2008
Jon Burroughs, MD, MBA, CMSL, a senior consultant at The Greeley Company, says that thoughtful...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 22, 2008
Summary suspensions, automatic suspensions, precautionary suspensions—over the next few...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, October 8, 2008
It is important to have a crystal-clear definition of “investigation” in your bylaws...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, October 1, 2008
Yes. Your organization’s policies should clearly outline the time frame by which it must act...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, October 1, 2008
Rather than requiring only particular staff categories to take such call, many medical staffs are...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 38, September 24, 2008
Is stating your organization’s name on the coversheet of your bylaws enough? Our Greeley...