You know how critical it is to maintain up-to-date, federally compliant bylaws. Simply put, the attention an organization pays to keeping its bylaws current is a direct reflection of its commitment to high-quality performance standards.
Yet there is a world of difference between knowing what a bylaw should contain and succinctly translating that idea into words. Sloppy drafting or poorly worded provisions can all-too-often hamper effective clinical governance, opening the door to liability.
Save time and effort creating current, compliant bylaws
The Greeley Company Guide to Medical Staff Bylaws is an easy-to-use tool that empowers you with the language you need to keep your bylaws current and compliant.
This one-stop resource provides precisely the model language you need
This 100-page “how-to” manual is chock-full of carefully reviewed and tested sample language that will make it a snap to revise any one section of your organization’s bylaws, or to recreate an entirely new bylaw document. This guide even makes sample selections of Greeley Company model bylaw language available to you.
Stay one step ahead of ever-changing Joint Commission and CMS requirements
The guidelines inThe Greeley Company Guide to Medical Staff Bylaws are applicable to pending or future Joint Commission and CMS bylaws standards. This one-of-a-kind reference tool makes it easy for you to accommodate bylaw updates or regulatory obligations. With our guide on your professional library shelf, you’ll be able to promptly address any new federal mandate, then quickly get back to business as usual.
Develop strategies for modifying current bylaws—or design new ones!
The Greeley Company Guide to Medical Staff Bylaws comes with HCPro’s handy Medical Staff Bylaws assessment tool. Put this easy-to-use Excel spreadsheet to work as you develop a game plan for targeting necessary improvements to your current bylaws.
Table of Contents
- How to use this book
- Introduction
- Modifying medical staff governing documents: Overcoming the challenges
- Section 1: Addressing the preliminaries
- Organization name
- Table of contents
- Definitions
- Preamble and statement of purpose
- Section 2: Medical staff governance
- Membership of the medical staff
- Medical staff categories
- Medical staff officers
- Medical executive committee
- Medical staff structure: Should the medical staff be departmentalized
- Amending the bylaws
- Section 3: Member rights and due process
- Member rights
- Investigations
- Special meeting requirements
- Suspensions
- The medical staff fair hearing
- Appeals to the board
- Reports to the National Practitioner Data Bank
- Section 4: Credentialing and privileging
- Introduction
- Qualifications for membership
- Establishing the credentials committee
- Processing new applications
- Processing reappointments
- Clinical privileges
- Leave of absences
- Practitioners providing contracted services
- Credentialing allied health professionals
- Section 5: Operational issues
- Introduction
- Quorum and attendance
- Determining committees
- Meeting required functions
- Additional items to cover
- Pulling it all together
- Medical staff bylaws assessment tool
- Appendices:
- State statutes on bylaws as a contract
- State statutes on economic credentialing
Gain invaluable insight into those confounding telemedicine bylaws or learn how to handle turf issues. From defining medical staff citizenship, to conducting elections, or even addressing special situations such as the removal of MEC members,The Greeley Company Guide to Medical Staff Bylawswill give you the confidence to tackle the key topics central to the foundation of your organization’s bylaws.
The Greeley Guide includes a companion CD-Rom
All the materials in the book are included on the CD-ROM, and reflect recent changes to the CMS regulations and the Joint Commission standards. Best of all, the CD-ROM lets you customize every form and file each time a new modification is needed.
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