During a recent webcast, "Medical Staff Governance Documents: The Increasing Importance of Contemporary Bylaws," Todd Sagin, MD, JD, offered guidance for differentiating among rules, regulations, policies, and bylaws. Following are questions and answers from this webcast.
Clinical contracts present numerous challenges for a hospital and its medical staff, which begin even before the contract is executed. The relative complexities of this process will vary, given the specific service to be performed...
Medical staffs across the country are discovering their governance documents are inadequate for today’s care environment. These trusted documents may provide murky guidance, be noncompliant with accreditation standards, or create liability for the hospital. Sound familiar? Tune in Wednesday,...
Bylaws serve as the governing documents of the medical staff. Bylaws must meet the hospital’s accreditor’s standards, state and federal regulations, and the needs of the hospital’s medical staff. The Guide to Medical Staff Bylaws offers tips for writing bylaws and actual sample...
On September 25, the State of Minnesota District Court, Fifth District, ruled that Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center's medical staff bylaws are not a binding contract between the medical staff and hospital administration and that the administration can unilaterally amend...