150.982 Guidelines Regarding the Role of Medical Directors in New York State:
MSSNY supports the following Guidelines Regarding the Role of the Hospital Medical Director:
(1) The hospital governing body, management and medical staff should jointly determine if there is a need to employ a medical director; establish the purpose, duties, and responsibilities of this position; establish the qualifications for this position; and provide a mechanism for medical staff input into the selection, evaluation and termination of the hospital medical director;
(2) The organized medical staff should maintain overall responsibility for the quality of the professional services provided by individuals with clinical privileges and should have the responsibility of reporting to the governing body; and
(3) Government regulations which mandate that a hospital medical director has authority over the medical staffs should be repealed.
MSSNY will seek modification of existing laws and regulations consistent with these guidelines. (HOD 1995-72; Reaffirmed HOD 2014)
