Employed practitioners must comply with HR policies, such as those surrounding orientation, patient safety, and risk management. Such requirements, which promote understanding of the organization’s culture and compliance with regulations and standards regarding patient care and safety, should...
Increasingly, organizations are implementing policies for evaluating older members of the medical staff—often for practitioners at age 70, or earlier if self-referral occurs. The policy may contain steps such as the following.
Privileges are permissions that have been granted to a physician or other licensed independent practitioner to provide specific patient care services, which may include the ability to admit, treat, manage, and perform procedures. The term “privileging” refers to the process the hospital and...
CMS has officially retired the requirements for healthcare staff vaccination against COVID-19 and has told surveyors to no longer review its compliance during survey.
Last week we talked about the actions that should trigger the fair hearing and appeal due process. This week, let's talk about and clearly state what actions should not trigger a fair hearing. In general, unless an adverse recommendation pertains to clinical incompetence or unprofessional...
Your medical staff bylaws must specifically state the exact details as to when, by whom, and how a fair hearing is triggered at the medical staff level and an appeal is triggered at the board level. In addition, the bylaws should have a "bright line" definition of the actions that will trigger...