Lac Usc Attending Staff Assoc

“Association membership is divided into 6 categories including active staff, emeritus staff, honorary staff, medical administrative staff, provisional staff, & temporary staff. Active staff shall consist of practitioners who engage in the minimum patient encounters established by the department to demonstrate familiarity with proactive, protocol and safety procedures at the medical center, or if no department minimum is established, a minimum average of five (5) patient encounters per year. Active staff are regularly involved in the care of in excess of five (5) patients a year or possess qualifications as deemed important as determined by the association. At the time of initial appointment, physicians and specialty dentist members of the active staff shall have graduated from a residency training program accredited by the accreditation council on graduate medical education and/or the commission on dental accreditation and be certified by a specialty board that is under the purview of the american board of medical specialties or be determined to possess the equivalent qualifications from another country or be an active specialty board candidate and have the recommendation of their department chair/chief for such status, provided that this requirement will not be applied to persons employed by the county as civil service employees on an hourly basis. Persons not fulfilling this requirement, including, without limitation, board certification, may apply for special consideration and must demonstrate that their education, training, experience, demonstrated ability, judgment and medical skills are equivalent to the level of proficiency evidenced by this requirement and otherwise meets the requirements of association membership. Generally, members of the active staff shall have satisfactorily completed their designated term in the provisional staff category. Practitioners who have been members of the active staff for twenty (20) years may apply for membership in the emeritus staff if, at the time of their retirement from the active staff , they are members in good standing of the association and otherwise continue to exemplify high standards of professional and ethical conduct. The executive committee may waive the requirement for twenty (20) continuous years membership in the active staff upon written request from the appropriate department chair/chief with adequate justification. Emeritus staff members shall be eligible to attend association meetings and to serve on association committees, and they may attend staff and department meetings including open committee meetings and educational programs. Emeritus staff members shall not be eligible to apply for clinical privileges, to admit or attend patients, or to vote or hold office, and shall not be required to attend departmental meetings. Practitioners who do not actively admit or attend 460 patients in the medical center but are considered deserving of association membership by virtue of their outstanding reputation, noteworthy contributions to the health and medical sciences, or previous long-standing service to the medical center, who continue to exemplify high standards of professional and ethical conduct and who are recommended for membership by the executive committee. Honorary staff members shall be eligible to attend association meetings and to serve on association committees, and they may attend staff and department meetings including open committee meetings and educational programs. Honorary staff members shall not be eligible to apply for clinical privileges, to admit or attend patients, or to vote or hold office, and shall not be required to attend department meetings. Administrative staff category membership shall be held by any physician, who is not otherwise eligible for another staff category, and who is retained by the hospital or medical staff solely to perform ongoing medical administrative activities, and does not admit patients or exercise clinical privileges. T”

“Elected officers must be members of the active staff at the time of nomination and election and must remain active staff members in good standing during their term of office. Failure to maintain such status shall immediately create a vacancy in the office involved. All officers must be licensed as physicians and surgeons. The nominating committee shall consist of the immediate past president, who shall serve as chair and at least four (4) members of the active staff appointed by the president of the association and approved by the executive committee at least two (2) months prior to the date of the annual association meeting at which the election according to this section 9.3 will take place. The nominating committee shall formally request names of potential candidates listed in 9.3-2 from members of the association at least sixty (60) days prior to the annual meeting. Such a request shall be made electronically to each association member through the association's internet-based bulletin board and electronically to those association members that have provided their e-mail address. The nominations of the committee shall be reported to the executive committee at least twenty (20) days prior to the annual meeting and shall be emailed to the voting members of the association at least twenty (20) days prior to the election. Nominations may also be made by petition signed by at least five (5) percent of the members of the association eligible to vote and be accompanied by written consent of the nominee(s) and filed with the secretary/treasurer at least fifteen (15) days prior to the annual association meeting. In this event, the secretary/treasurer shall promptly advise the membership of the additional nomination(s) by email. Voting shall be by written ballot. Election of president-elect and secretary/treasurer shall be by simple majority of the votes cast at the annual association meeting. In the event that there are three (3) or more candidates for office and no candidate receives a majority, there shall be successive balloting such that the name of the candidate receiving fewest votes is omitted from each successive slate until a simple majority vote is obtained by one (1) candidate. If two (2) candidates have the same number of least votes, both shall be omitted from the successive slate. Election to the nine (9) representatives at large positions shall be by plurality of the votes cast for each position with the candidate receiving the most votes being elected.”

“A copy of form 990 is provided to the association's president, dr. Tamra chambers, m.d., and treasurer, josh banejee, m.d., for review prior to filing.”

“The organization regularly and consistently monitors and enforces compliance with its conflict of interest policy through peer review and routine corrective action, under its bylaws. Such corrective action may include, but is not limited to, removal of a member from the association position where a conflict of interests exists.”

“Association officers should be compensated for their work spent representing and leading the association. Such compensation shall come from association funds, for which the attending staff has sole responsibility. The payment to individual physicians should be in the amount determined by the executive committee. If the medical center provides any funds specifically earmarked for such compensation, those funds should be requested and accounted for in the association budget for medical center approval.”

“The organization makes its governing documents and conflicts of interest policy available to the public on its website.”

“Non-deductible irs penalties paid -14,290. Rounding 1.”