How to Deal With the Disruptive Practitioner - Webinar By MentorHealth

FREMONT, Calif. - May 8, 2013 - PRLog -- Overview: This webinar will discuss the development of such a policy, including a statement in the medical staff bylaws to the effect that each member of the staffis expected to comply with all of the hospital and medical staff rules, regulations, policies and procedures relating to behavior and performance. It is also important to make sure that the policy makes it clear that failure to do so will subject the member to sanction under the corrective action procedure delineated in the bylaws and/or fair hearing plan.

It is also important to understand what constitutes disruptive behavior. Disruptive behavior includes violent or verbally abusive activity, but it is not limited to such behavior. This webinar with review several actual examples of disruptive behavior that has been the subject of action brought in court.

Disruptive activity takes many forms. Understanding that, this webinar will discuss the steps that the hospital and/or the medical staff should take to see that it does not affect patient care or disrupt operations. After having the bylaws clearly state that such activity will not be tolerated, the next step is to have a medical staff policy regarding disruptive behavior that includes progressive discipline and/or sanctions that may be imposed before taking formal action under the corrective action directives. This webinar will discuss how to develop those policies and what those policies should include.

Areas Covered in the Session:

Disruptive practitioner policies.
Corrective action procedures.
What constitutes disruptive behavior.
Steps the hospital and/or the medical staff should take to see that the disruptive activity does not affect patient care or disrupt operations.
Do not condone the problem until it gets to a point where it can no longer be ignored

Who Will Benefit:
Hospital Executives
Medical Staff Officers
Physicians who serve on peer review committees
Medical Staff Support Staff
Attorneys Representing Medical Staffs

William Mack Copeland MS, JD, PhD, LFACHE, practices health care law in Cincinnati at the firm of Copeland Law, LLC. He is also president of Executive & Managerial Development Group, a consulting entity providing compliance and other fraud and abuse related services. A graduate of Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Bill is a frequent author and speaker on health law topics.

Copeland is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, American, Ohio and Cincinnati Bar Associations and is a life fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. He was awarded the American College of Health Care Executives Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award in 2007.