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Guide
for Assessing Hospital Liability: A Former CEO's Perspective
Pat
Cornelison
6" x 9",
165 pages
2007, Lawyers
and Judges
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This
book guides attorneys, hospital executives, or any professionals
involved in hospital liability cases, through the intricacies
of hospital liability.
Attorneys with
little exposure to or understanding of the complexities
of the hospital industry prior to handling cases arising
from care or treatment provided in the hospital setting
may feel as though they've wandered into a multifaceted
maze. Even hospital owners and administrators may not fully
appreciate or fully understand the magnitude of laws, codes,
rules, regulations and standards that govern hospitals today,
and how they affect them in a liability cases.
Guide for
Assessing Hospital Liability looks at the legal challenges
confronting hospitals, provides insight into basic hospital
organization and governance, and recommends practical strategies
for comprehensive assessment of hospital liability, risk,
vulnerability or responsibility. No other book presents
such a straightforward discussion of how hospitals actually
work or should work, in a way that could be easily understood,
regardless of experience, exposure or expertise.
Author Pat Cornelison,
a former hospital CEO and currently practicing management
and forensic consultant, offers an insider's view, with
the knowledge and understanding required to provide effective
strategies for those investigation and prosecuting or defending
hospital liability cases.
Topics
include:
• History
of hospital liability
• Hospital culture
• Hospital regulatory law
• Hospital govenance
• Hospital management
• The medical staff
• Medical satff bylaws
• Collaborative leadership
• Hospital communications
• Assessing liability, risk, vulnerability
and responsibility
• Hospital liability litigation
Table
of Contents
Section 1. From
Absolute Immunity to Multi-Dimensional Liability: How Did
We Get Here?
Section 2. Hospital Culture: What Defines It?
Section 3. Hospital Regulatory Law: Who’s the Boss?
Section 4. Hospital Governance: Where Does the Buck Stop?
Section 5. Hospital Management: Who’s Who and What
Do They Do?
Section 6. The Organized Medical Staff: How Organized Is
It?
Section 7. Medical Staff Bylaws: Are They Law?
Section 8. Physician v. Hospital: Does the Hospital Always
Win?
Section 9. Collaborative Hospital Leadership: Is It?
Section 10. Policies, Procedures, Protocols, Rules, and
Regulations: Do They Practice What They Preach?
Section 11. Hospitals Don’t Practice Medicine: Do
They?
Section 12. Hospital Communications: Will Their Words Come
Back to Haunt Them?
Section 13. Selected Cases: Might They Apply to Hospitals?
Section 14. Assessing Liability, Risk, Vulnerability and
Responsibility in Litigation and Defense: Guilty as Charged?
Section 15. Resources: What Should Be In Your Libraries,
Real and Virtual?
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