Month: March 2012

The Governing Body or Governance assumes full legal responsibility and addresses the operational issues of the facility addressing patient rights, administrative policies & procedures for the effective management of the facility.   This is where it can get confusing but I am going to make this very easy to understand.  In earlier postings I mentioned that…

The medical executive committee recommends approval of appointment privileges to the governing body of the surgery center in which then the governing body grants and approves the initial appointment, reappointment, assignment or curtailment of clinical privileges based on professional peer review evaluation and verification.  If you are a smaller facility you may not have a…