Guide for Assessing Hospital Liability: A Former CEO's Perspective

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Guide for Assessing Hospital Liability: A Former CEO's Perspective by Pat Cornelison guides attorneys, hospital executives, and professionals through the intricacies of hospital liability cases. Written from an insider’s perspective by a former hospital CEO and forensic consultant, this 165-page reference provides practical strategies for comprehensive assessment of hospital liability, risk, vulnerability, and responsibility.

No other book presents such a straightforward discussion of how hospitals actually work — or should work — in such an accessible manner, regardless of the reader’s prior experience or expertise.

Author: Pat Cornelison
ISBN-10: 1-933264-47-0
ISBN-13: 978-1-933264-47-9
Copyright: February 1, 2008
Pages: 165
Binding: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9 inches

Topics Include:

History of hospital liability — from absolute immunity to multi-dimensional liability
Hospital culture, governance, and management
Hospital regulatory law
The organized medical staff and medical staff bylaws
Physician vs. hospital liability
Collaborative hospital leadership
Policies, procedures, protocols, and regulations
Hospital communications and documentation risks
Selected case law applicable to hospitals
Assessing liability, risk, vulnerability, and responsibility in litigation and defense

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Consultant Cornelison examines a few of 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, and responsibility. She offers an insider's view into the inner workings of hospitals, in areas such as hospital culture, regulatory law, governance, management, the medical staff, and medical staff bylaws. She also looks at collaborative hospital leadership and hospital communications. A final chapter presents selected real-life cases demonstrating other dimensions of hospital liability or potential liability regarding access to health care, obligation to provide care, liability of health care professionals, the professional-patient relationship, professional relationships in health care enterprises, and life and death decisions.