Horty Springer: Strategies for Managing Physician Health and Disruptive Conduct_May 2021_Enduring

Strategies for Managing Physician Health and Disruptive Conduct provides an opportunity for hospital and medical staff leaders to cultivate a sophisticated understanding of the legal and practical complexities that come into play when the most difficult credentialing and peer review issues arise — specifically, those involving practitioner health, disruptive conduct, and conflicts of interest.

By working through case studies and complex scenarios, this course will help participants navigate the land mines that can arise when health, conduct, and conflicts are at issue. Experienced faculty will guide participants to develop problem management strategies that reduce legal risk, help colleagues, and, most importantly, protect patients.

Suggested Additional Reading:

  1. Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert 40, July 9, 2008, https://www.jointcommission.org/resources/patient-safety-topics/sentinel-event/sentinel-event-alert-newsletters/sentinel-event-alert-issue-40-behaviors-that-undermine-a-culture-of-safety/
  2. Disruptive and Unprofessional Behavior, Patient Safety Primer, a publication of the Patient Safety Network (PS Net) of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), (last updated September 7, 2019), https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/disruptive-and-unprofessional-behavior
  3. Doctors with Disability Reflect on Challenges, ACP Internist, February 2020, https://acpinternist.org/archives/2020/02/doctors-with-disability-reflect-on-challenges.htm
  4. Applying Performance and Conduct Standards to Employees with Disabilities, EEOC Guidance, September 3, 2008, https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/applying-performance-and-conduct-standards-employees-disabilities

Target Audience

This course was designed for hospital administrators, physicians and clinicians who need to be better informed about how to manage and possibly improve their overall performance.

This training is specifically targeted to:

  • Board Members (Particularly those serving on a quality or credentialing subcommittee)
  • Hospital CEOs
  • Directors & Medical Directors of Hospital-Affiliated Physician Groups
  • CMOs
  • Chiefs of Staff
  • Department Chiefs
  • Committee Chairs (e.g. MEC, Credentials Committee, Peer Review Committee)
  • Medical Staff Services Professionals
  • Quality Professionals
  • Risk Management Professionals
  • In House Counsel
 
 
 
 
 
 

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this audio conference, participants will be able to:

  • Identify unprofessional practitioner conduct and implement proven techniques to confront and managing such conduct methodically and in a manner that both reduces legal risks and increases the possibility of practitioner compliance
  • Develop practical, lawful, non-discriminatory processes for recruiting, hiring, credentialing, peer reviewing, and providing collegial assistance to physicians with health issues
  • Identify and resolve conflicts of interest that can interfere with fair review
  • Effectively plan and execute a collegial meeting with a practitioner to discuss concerns about conduct, obtain the practitioner’s input, and establish expectations for future conduct

SPECIAL NOTE:

There is no educational content to this course. This site is designed to supplement training that has already occurred, to administer the post-test, collect CME evaluations, and issue credit.

 
 
 
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 6.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
03/01/2021
Course expires: 
03/01/2024
Horty Springer
United States

LeeAnne Mitchell, JD.  Partner, Horty, Springer & Mattern, PC.
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.

Rachel Remaley, JD.  Partner, Horty, Springer & Mattern, PC.
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.


All presenters disclosure of relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients is listed above.  No other planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Joint Provider Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and HortySpringer Seminars.  The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Available Credit

  • 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 6.00 Attendance
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