Physician documentation checklist offered

Financial results announced for June, July

Home Health moves to Prospective Payment System

Physician order entry (POE) debut rescheduled to March

Badger, Goffinet new med board members

Code Pink

New Hand Disinfection Program

STAFF MEETING
Date: Thursday, 
Nov. 2 
• Fairchild Aud. 
• 5:00 p.m. 
• Hors d'oeuvres (including shrimp) and wine 6:15 p.m.
• Business meeting and discussion 

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-Oscar Salvatierra, director of adult and pediatric renal transplantation at Stanford and Packard hospitals, presents a gold commemorative medal to Pope John Paul II during the 18th International Congress of the Transplantation Society at which the pope announced support for organ donation and transplantation. Salvatierra, professor of transplant surgery and of pediatrics, presided over the conference, attended in Rome Aug. 27-Sept. 1 by more than 4,000 scientists and physicians.

Clinical documentation improves the safety and even efficacy of clinical care, and in any case, failure to comply with rules results in potentially costly and disruptive disciplinary action for the hospital and/or caregivers, notes Larry Shuer, chief of staff. 

As part of ongoing efforts to improve clinical documentation and adhere to external requirements, Medical Staff Services has prepared the following checklist for physicians to review. 

Shuer noted that the next JCAHO [Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations] accreditation site visit is expected in April 2001, and documentation is reviewed from at least the prior year. The items on this checklist focus on issues which have commonly been cited by JCAHO and other regulatory agencies during surveys at other hospitals.