Deaconess Medical Staff Office

The purpose of Deaconess Medical Staff is to be the organization through which the benefits of membership on the Medical Staff may be obtained and the obligations of staff membership may be fulfilled. (Continued on Schedule O)To foster cooperation with administration and the Board while allowing staff members to function with relative freedom in the care and treatment of their patients. To provide a mechanism to ensure that all patients admitted to or treated in any of the facilities or services of the Hospital shall receive a uniform level of appropriate quality care, treatment and services commensurate with community resources during the length of stay with the organization, by accounting for and reporting regularly to the Board on patient care evaluation, including monitoring and other performance improvement activities in accordance with the Hospital's performance improvement program.