The Institute for Medical Quality’s PreCALS PLUS Medical Staff Issues and Answers Conference will be November 2 to 3 at the San Francisco airport Doubletree Hotel in Burlingame. Medical staff teams (chiefs of staff, committee chairs, quality-management personnel, and medical staff directors and coordinators) are encouraged to attend.

The conference will focus on changes to JCAHO’s standards for 2007, with special attention to medical staff and credentialing standards. Also discussed will be California’s Title 22 regulations, 2007 national patient safety goals, and areas of concern for California hospitals identified by JCAHO surveyors in 2006.

This year’s conference also includes an expanded program on dealing with disruptive/stressed physicians, including guidelines for physician well being committees and information on conducting effective peer review. Among the presenters will be a case manager from the medical board diversion program.

Click here to download the program brochure and registration form.

Contact: IMQ, 415/882-5167 or liacopi@imq.org.