The Greeley Guide to Medical Staff Bylaws, Second Edition

Expertly-crafted bylaws language to guide your medical staff.

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. Inaccurate, incomplete, or poorly worded provisions can hamper effective clinical governance and open the door to liability.

This one-stop resource provides precisely the model language you need.

The Greeley Guide to Medical Staff Bylaws, Second Edition, is an easy-to-use tool that empowers you with the background information and modifiable sample language you need to:

• Revise any section of your organization's bylaws
• Create an entirely new bylaws document that is right for your organization
• Keep your bylaws current and compliant
• Stay up-to-date on Joint Commission and CMS standards

This expanded and updated "how-to" manual provides you with:

• Carefully reviewed and tested sample bylaws language from Greeley Medical Staff Institute experts
• Thorough explanation of bylaws requirements
• An accompanying CD-ROM so you can copy and customize sample bylaws
• A sample medical staff bylaws assessment tool
• Information and sample language covering:
  • Medical staff redesign
  • Medical staff governance
  • Credentialing and privileging procedures
  • Medical staff operations
  • Member rights
  • Due process
  • Fair hearings

It also includes updated language and information to address new medical staff concerns:

• Joint Commission standard MS.01.01.01 (formerly MS.1.20)
• Focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE)
• Ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE)
• Allied health professionals
• Collegial intervention
• Amendments
• Aging practitioners
• Leadership and succession committee
• Peer review
• Automatic relinquishment
• MEC at-large members

Develop strategies for modifying, revamping, or overhauling bylaws.

The Greeley Guide to Medical Staff Bylaws comes with the Greeley Medical Staff Institute'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.

Take a look at the table of contents:

Section 1: Addressing the Preliminaries
Organization Name
Table of Contents
Definitions
Preamble and Statement of Purpose
Purpose and Authority

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, Corrective Action, and Fair Hearings
Member Rights
Collegial Intervention
Investigations
Special Meeting Attendance
Requirements
Suspensions
The Medical Staff Fair Hearing
Appeals to the Board
Reports to the National Practitioner Data Bank

Section 4: Credentialing and Privileging Procedures
Qualifications for Membership and/or Privileges
Establishing the Credentials Committee
Processing New Applications
Processing Reappointments
Granting Clinical Privileges
Leaves of Absence
Credentialing Allied Health Practitioners
Credentialing Telemedicine Providers
Practitioners Providing Contracted Services

Section 5: Medical Staff Operational Issues
Attendance and Quorum
Required Medical Staff Functions
Determining the Appropriate Number of Medical Staff Committees
Parliamentary Procedure
Putting it All Together
A Guide to Bylaws Document Review
Undertaking a Bylaws Review
Responsibility for the Bylaws Review
Enable the Creation of New Bylaws
Conclusion

Who will benefit?

Medical staff leaders, medical directors, credentialing coordinators, chief medical officers, chief executive officers, quality directors/managers, medical staff services managers and professionals

About the author

Joseph D. Cooper, MD, CMSL, is a senior consultant with The Greeley Company. He is a physician executive with more than 20 years of experience in medical staff organization and function, bylaws review and design, peer review, and credentialing and privileging. Cooper has held numerous medical staff positions, including department chair, credentials chair, and president of the medical staff. He has also served as a hospital board trustee and chaired the quality council. Cooper has successfully led redesign projects, been involved in fair hearings, worked to enhance physician-board relations, and developed a medical staff leadership program and communication vehicles.

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