Medical Staff dues and fees provide a variety of services
Medicine community attends Strategic Planning Retreat
'Boarding Pass', H&Ps crucial to OR safety, efficiency, compliance
Physicians Be Prepared /JCAHO Q&A.pdf
JCAHO dates set in April, IMO survey deferred
Collaboration, amenities, facilities enhanced by new Cancer Center
GRAND ENTRANCE
Radiation Oncology Chair Richard T. Hoppe, who also serves as chair of the Clinical Cancer Steering Committee, stands outside the entrance to the Cancer Center at Stanford. Existing outpatient services were transferred to the new building on March 1. (SEE Cancer Center)
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Professional conference serves generalists, specialists, nurses (MORE)
SAVE THE DATE: Thursday - MAY 20
FAIRCHILD
AUDITORIUM
(adjacent to convenient parking and the hospital)
5:00
to 6:15 p.m.
- Drinks
and serious hors d'oeuvers/light dinner
6:15
to 7:30 p.m.
- Business meeting
GUEST
SPEAKER - Robert M. Wachter,
professor, associate chairman of medicine and chief of the medical service,
UC San Francisco. He is the co-author of a new book, "Internal Bleeding:
What we Need to Know and Do to Cure our Epidemic of Medical Mistakes."
The author/speaker, a pioneer of the "hospitalist" concept,
makes the case that medicine can learn from industry how to avoid dangerous
mistakes.
Concise
updates from Chief of Staff Larry Shuer, Medical Staff President, Bruce
Adornato, and other hospital leadership.
Questions
from staff members and leadership
JCAHO
April 13-16
The hospital is providing a number of tools and resources before the Tuesday - Friday site visit. Included in this issue of the Medical Staff Update is:
-
An overview (MORE).
- A pullout list of questions and answers likely to be asked of physicians
by the survey team (MORE).
- Chief of Staff Larry Shuer's column (MORE).
- Also of note is an article on an important patient safety. (MORE).
Librarians demonstrate services at
March 25
celebration
Lane Medical Library will celebrate National Doctors
Day on Thursday, March 25 in Fairchild Auditorium. From 7:30 to 9:15
am. Librarians will demonstrate new electronic resources, conduct free
literature searches, and offer refreshments. For further information,
see Lane's web page: http://lane.
stanford.edu
Web design & site maintenance: Tyler Holland / Joanna McClean MacWorks Graphics Studio
Hoppe photo: Mike Goodkind
