Webinar On Hospital Systems:Medical Staff Issues

Training Options Duration: 60 Minutes
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

Overview: This webinar addresses the medical staff issues arising when hospitals merge or are acquired by healthcare systems.Change in hospital ownership affects governance, including medical staff governance. The existing medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations and policies may be replaced as a result.

Already established systems also create conflicts as system-wide documents may not fit all medical staffs in that system hospitals.The complication of recent changes in Medicare Conditions of Participation to allow systems to unify medical staffs will also be analyzed.

Why should you Attend: Hospitals are merging or being acquired continuously by expanding healthcare systems.Merging medical staffs is no less complicated than the financial side of system growth. Planning and preparation can guard against combined medical staff conflicts and liability.

Areas Covered in the Session:

Medical Staff Bylaws in Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions
Medical Staff Governance in Hospital Systems
Medical Staff Peer Review Across Hospital Systems
Medicare Conditions of Participation regarding Medical Staff Unification

Who Will Benefit:
Medical Staff President/Chief of Staff
Bylaws Committee
Credentialing Committee
Chief Medical Officer
Vice President of Medical Affairs
Chief of Staff
Director of Medical Staff
Medical Staff Attorney
Hospital Counsel
Medical Staff Manager
Credentialing Specialist
Human Resources Professionals

Speaker Profile
Elizabeth A.Snelson represents medical staffs across the country, focusing on medical staff bylaws, and works for medical societies on medical staff issues. A frequent speaker on medical staff legal issues, Ms Snelson presents at medical staff leadership retreats, and in programs sponsored by state medical staff services associations and medical societies, the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association, and other organizations.

She is Past President of the American Society of Medical Association Counsel, Vice President of the ABA’s Physician Issues Interest Group, and serves Of Counsel to the Minneapolis law firm of Lockridge Grindal Nauen. She was a member of the Joint Commission’s MS 01.01.01 Task Force. Her articles on medical staff legal issues have appeared in various publications. She is the author of The Physicians’ Guide to Medical Staff Organization Bylaws, published by AMA, the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Model Medical Staff Bylaws, the North Carolina Medical Society’s Model Medical Staff Bylaws, and other model medical staff documents.

Price - $139

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