The Supreme Court of Arkansas (the "Court") recently affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a discrimination complaint filed against a hospital by a former employee who was terminated for failing to comply with the hospital's influenza vaccination policy. The terminated employee, Ann Jenkins,...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 31, Issue 4
MSPs are tasked with making sure only competent practitioners provide care at their organization. This requires thorough vetting of the practitioner’s history. And while most MSPs understand this responsibility, they often struggle with where to go to collect this information and how deep to dig...
Peer review, quality, and patient safety—the literature on these topics could fill a small library. However, the role of the medical executive committee (MEC) is not to become subject matter experts on these topics, but rather to effectively discharge their duties and responsibilities. Therefore...
Medical staff service professionals and hospital leaders have long asked what is reportable to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) when taking disciplinary action against a physician. The NPDB is a centralized database overseen by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit involving Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH), the teaching hospital of the Yale School of Medicine, and aging physicians remains an ongoing legal matter. The EEOC charged in the February 2020 lawsuit that the hospital violated federal...
There are many positives to the judicious use of social media in medicine, and the future will open many more possibilities. The risks, however, will not diminish in time; rather, the potholes will become bigger. Everyone, medical professional or not, would benefit from pausing before posting on...