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Issue 12, December 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Consider medical staff membership options for low-volume providers

  Does your hospital have medical staff physicians with privileges but who rarely-or never-admit...

• Review your disciplinary procedures for student physicians

  Hospitals with teaching programs employing interns, residents, and fellows must at times impose...

• Ask the expert

  This month's questions were answered by John B. Reiss, Esq. Reiss is a partner with the...

Issue 11, November 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Evaluate tools for assessing MD communication skills

  The JCAHO's 2007 standards have sent many hospitals scrambling to figure out how they will comply...

• Keep legal implications in mind when constructing a proctoring program

  NewJCAHO standards emphasize facilities' need to continuously evaluate the clinical competence of...

• Ask the expert

  Editor's note: These questions were answered by Bruce Armon, Esq., a partner in the Philadelphia...

Issue 10, October 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Avoid ADA claims: Thoroughly consider reasonable accommodation

  Is your facility in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? Consider the...

• Camera phones and physicians: Craft a personal technology policy

  Hospitals are reporting that an increasing number of physicians are using camera phones to aid...

Issue 9, September 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Jury award reinforces need to investigate, report problem docs

  Hospitals must walk a tightrope when dealing with potentially incompetent or impaired physicians...

• Establish a process for handling physician competency questions

  From time to time, most hospitals encounter a situation in which a physician with staff privileges...

Issue 8, August 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Practices to protect against inappropriate behavior

  It is an ever-changing and increasingly complicated gauntlet that hospitals must run: How much...

• Well-being centers extend help to disruptive physicians

  For residents and physicians, unprofessional behavior takes many forms. Although alcoholism and...

Issue 7, July 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Battling the rising tide of negligent credentialing lawsuits

  Negligent credentialing by any name-corporate or institutional negligence; negligent selection; or...

• Criminal background checks: Finding sources for researching applicants

  The reasons for hospitals to conduct thorough background checks on physician applicants continue to...

Issue 6, June 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Clearing up common HCQIA misconceptions

  By now it's an old headline, but it continues to grab readers' attention: Every year, 100,000...

• Teach residents healthy skepticism regarding industry gifts

  Eliminating conflicts of interest between pharmaceutical companies' marketing efforts and a...

Issue 5, May 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Court case demonstrates peer review, privilege suspension balancing act

  Hospital leaders, even those with years of experience, face a challenge in making the right...

• Court decision raises issue of physician ownership

  In what appears to be a growing trend, a group of physicians with direct and indirect ties to a...

Issue 4, April 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• 'Angel of mercy' case shows danger in failing to screen employees

  Charles Cullen, a New Jersey nurse-turned-serial-killer and self-proclaimed "angel of mercy," was...

• Physician preference: When docs can't or won't treat specific patients

  What if a physician in your healthcare organization decides that he or she will no longer treat...

Issue 3, March 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• The physician recruiting minefield

  Stark law, anti-kickback statute complicate an already treacherous path The nationwide...

• Professional organizations clash on endoscopy privileging

  AAFP counters ACG statement requiring board certification The American College of...

Issue 2, February 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Peer review quandary: Pros and cons of switching to paid panel members

  Sometimes it doesn’t become clear that a hospital’s bylaws--even those for crucial...

• Whistleblower claims retaliatory firing, must pay hospital’s legal costs

  A Federal judge in Michigan ruled that a whistleblower must pay $1.6 million in attorneys&rsquo...

Issue 1, January 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• New technology, new challenges

  Assessing the privileging side of emerging procedures New technology proliferates faster each...

• Mandating board certification for medical staff physicians still up for debate

  The more things change, the more they stay the same. Although the reasons and arguments might...