The story of Margaret McBride, a nun who was recently excommunicated for allowing an abortion to occur at Arizona-based St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, has made headlines during the past few months. The case prompted the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to write...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 27
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, credentialing and privileging, physician leadership, and other important medical staff related topics.
In my travels as a consultant, I get asked a lot of questions regarding...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 20
If organizations merely address legalities in their contracts with physicians and fail to define expectations, they almost guarantee that the physician employment contract is only worth the paper that it is written on.
When you combine the heart-wrenching possibility of taking away a colleague's livelihood with the threat of getting involved in a discrimination lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities or Age Discrimination in Employment Acts, it's no wonder that many medical staffs find it difficult to...
Minute taking is an art. Too little information in meeting minutes may result in inadequate documentation, whereas too much information can become fodder for plaintiff’s attorneys if the minutes become subject to discovery during litigation.
