AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD
Sponsored by Kroll Worldwide
presented on January 18, 2007
Performing criminal background checks on physicians has become essential in medical staff offices across the country. However, confusion arises when deciding what to actually do with the results.
Protect patients while dealing with a physician’s criminal background
Listen to this audioconference, From Misdemeanors to Malpractice: How to Handle Criminal Background Check Results. Our expert speakers will help you examine what actions should be taken to protect patients without exposing your facility to a lawsuit.
At the end of this audioconference, participants will be able to:
- develop an action plan for reviewing and processing physicians with prior criminal convictions.
- identify those persons within the medical staff who can have access to the criminal conviction information and who will be responsible to review and make decisions/recommendations regarding those physicians.
- clarify the options available to the medical staff when faced with a physician with a criminal record.
AGENDA
- Here is what organizations are doing
- Recent phenomenon of hospitals performing background checks
- JCAHO’s stance
- Types of crime
- Information people are using
- What do you do with the information once you get it?
- Zero tolerance and other policies
- How to keep it confidential
- Physician Well-being/Wellness committee
- Credentials committee
- Medical staff coordinator
- Does it depend on the category of the offense?
- Documentation to require from practitioner
- Different situations
- 18-year-old case vs. recent cases
- Expunged cases
- Outright omission by practitioner
- Develop an action plan
- Q&A session
FACULTY
Vicki Searcy, CPMSM, Practice Director, Credentialing & Privileging, The Greeley Company, a Division of HCPro, Inc.
Stephen G. Auer, J.D, partner at Christensen and Auer Law Offices
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Hospital medical staffs, medical staff coordinators, human resources, credentials committee, human resources in long term care, risk managers, house counsel
PROGRAM MATERIALS
Program materials are provided with PDF links.
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