Most hospitals explicitly agree to indemnify medical staff members for performing peer review work on behalf of the institution. This indemnification covers the legal expenses of the proctor should he or she be named in a lawsuit, and it typically covers any judgment against the proctor as long...
As the governing documents of your medical staff, bylaws must not only meet your medical staff’s needs but also your hospital’s accreditor’s standards, and state and federal regulations.The...
In today’s culture of consolidation, medical staff offices should ready their bylaws for a merger long before a deal is underway, or even a blip on the executive team’s strategic radar.
Hospitals should allow advanced practice professionals (APP) the right to dispute any action that revokes, suspends, terminates, restricts, or reduces the clinical privileges that they’ve been granted, unless the action corresponds to the privileges of an entire APP classification.
Practitioners’ scopes of practice are primarily established by the state, rather than the federal, government. Hospitals then determine allowed practice parameters within state boundaries. In other words, if a state has expanded the scope of an advanced practice professional’s (APP) practice,...
