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Speaker |
Elizabeth Snelson |
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Industry |
Hospital and Compliance |
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Speciality |
Hospital and Compliance |
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Available |
All Days |
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Duration |
60 Minutes |
Description
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are often included as goals in hospital mission statements. Failure to address DEI in medical staff documents creates a disconnect.
Medical staff policies and procedures that do not correct biases create bigger problems than bad optics. Bad faith credentialing loses opportunities for hospitals, harms overall staff morale, and jeopardizes both physicians' reputations and patient care. Prejudiced peer review means huge damages in court.
This webinar will review basic medical staff processes that need to be corrected to comply with state and federal law and regulation and Joint Commission accreditation standards.
Areas Covered
Background
Hospital Medical Staff are required by state law and nationwide accreditation to review physicians and other clinicians without bias.
Why Should You Attend
Fairness, quality, and liability are on the line when bias influences evaluating whether an individual can treat patients in the hospital. Sloppy policies and medical staff bylaws create problems unnecessarily - and can destroy physician careers.
Who Should Attend
(Esq.)
Elizabeth Snelson helps medical staff across the country with 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.