A blueprint for medical staff consolidation.
Consolidation of the medical staffs of merging hospitals must be considered separately from the corporate merger, and the organizational framework combining the staffs must be carefully planned. A participant of a recent merger outlines the mechanism through which two medical staffs established common principles of consolidation, separately enacted identical bylaws, developed a cross-credentialing procedure, and instituted a transitional organizational framework.
D003249:Constitution and Bylaws; D058016:Health Facility Administration; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009518:New York; D011367:Professional Staff Committees