Chestnut Resolutions Inc. Nfp

“The organization does not have any employees. Services are rendered by a related organization, chestnut health systems inc. Which has a written conflict of interest policy which requires annual disclosure of any relationshhips that could give rise to conflicts, a whistleblower policy in connection with all employees and a formal document retention and destruction policy.”

“The organization makes these documents available upon request at its offices during normal business hours.”

“The organization has an annual board meeting. Contemporaneous minutes of the annual meeting are maintained by the organization. The organization has no committees.”

“Every chestnut staff person is responsible for the integrity and accuracy of chestnut's documents and records, not only to comply with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements, but also to insure that records are available to defend chestnut's business practices or other actions. No staff person may falsify information on any record or document. No staff person may destroy any records or documents except in accordance with chestnut's record retension policy. The client and buinsess records of chestnut are retained in accordance with applicable law and the chestnut record retention policy. Client records and business documents include paper documents such as letters and memos,computer-based information such as email or computer files on disk or tape, and any other medium that contains information about chestnut or its business activities. Staff must retain and destroy records appropriately according to chestnut's policy. Staff must not tamper with records, nor remove or destroy them prior to the specified date.”

“Chestnut maintains a policy to encourage staff to report instances of research misconduct without the threat of retaliation. Chestnut takes seriously any alleged or actual retaliation and has developed measures to encourage ethical conduct while discouraging retaliation for reporting of unethical research conduct. Chestnut staff should report any research misconduct to the research integrity committee chairperson. If the potential misconduct involved the chairperson or members of the research integrity committe, the staff member should simultaneously report the miscoduct to the chairperson of the chestnut institutional review board and to the chestnut's chief executive officer. Chestnut staff must comply with state and federal law and professional codes of ethics in reporting breaches of professional conduct or professional impairment that are revealed within the training environment.”

“The process has not changed from prior years”