Bylaws, medical staff governance, & structure

Reviewing and updating bylaws gives the medical staff the opportunity to improve physician engagement, effect meaningful change, and implement leading practices that are responsive to the current complex environment. Our diverse team includes physicians, advanced practice professionals, and legal experts with decades of experience providing comprehensive medical staff support. 

Working with physicians, administrators, and legal counsel, we facilitate a collaborative session to redesign an organization’s approach to bylaws and/or rules & regulations in alignment with its unique culture. We focus on legal and regulatory requirements as well as best practice options where variability is allowed. We support medical staff leaders by documenting the rationale for changes, and can assist in socializing the changes to secure approval by the medical staff.

We work with clients to review medical staff governance documents, specifically assessing for regulatory compliance (and providing compliant language, as needed), and identifying opportunities to implement leading practices. 

Hospital mergers and acquisitions are the new norm in healthcare, and medical staff alignment is necessary for success. Working with physicians, administrators, and legal counsel from multiple hospitals with independent medical staffs, we facilitate review and alignment sessions to create medical staff governance documents and structures to meet the needs of the organization and medical staffs. There are numerous approaches to alignment, including complete medical staff unification, combining multiple medical staffs under one hospital license, designing standardized documents, or creating a model set of governing documents that capture core requirements but allow for customization when possible.