Pathways Webinar Training for Hospital and Medical Staff Leaders Is Back for 2025!
This year’s program will focus on quality enhancement through excellence in credentialing and privileging.  The aim is to promote quality and patient safety on the front end – through careful upfront assessment and management of areas of concern and prevention/avoidance when those concerns cannot be resolved.  We will cover the fundamentals of the credentialing continuum during the course of the year. In addition, each session will hone in on “hot topics” in credentialing that many health systems, hospitals, and medical staffs are attempting to tackle in 2025.

Watch Now: What You Need to Know About The New Obstetrical Services Conditions of Participation
In response to the growing maternal health crisis in the U.S., CMS issued new conditions of participation for hospitals and critical access hospitals that offer obstetrical services. Listen in as HortySpringer attorneys Mary Paterni and Hala Mouzaffar take a deep dive into these new requirements and discuss what you can do to start preparing.


What’s New in Health Law

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New Cases

Court Finds Deliberate Omissions from Application Are Cause to Deny Applications

A trial court in New York dismissed a lawsuit brought by a physician against a hospital, challenging its decision to deny him appointment and clinical privileges. Guterman v. Stony Brook Univ. Hosp.

To read more about this case and to find out what’s new in healthcare law, visit our What’s New page


Question of the Week

We recently had a patient suicide reviewed through our sentinel event/root cause analysis process.  The process did not identify any aspect of the matter that should be attributed to the attending physician’s provision of care.  Is that the end of the matter?  Do we also need to refer this matter to the medical staff’s peer review process for consideration?  Would it have any authority to reach a different conclusion?  How do these processes intersect?

Read the answer now>>


HortySpringer’s Contract Control Program for Hospitals and Healthcare Systems is now available!

Healthcare contracts can be challenging, but with the right support, they don’t have to be. We have teamed up with our friends from LegalSifter to offer a tailored Contract Control Program just for hospitals and health systems. This lets you review contracts you receive from others, draft new contracts using HortySpringer curated templates, negotiate agreements and manage the contracts after they’re signed. It’s a full-service solution that simplifies the entire contract process.


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