Medical Staff Services

• President: Nate C. Page, MD
• Vice President: Joshua Koch, MD
• Chair, Credentials Committee: Deborah Tom, MD
• Chair, Peer Review Committee: Christina Conrad, DO
• Chair, Medicine Department: Shahan Fernando, MD
  • Vice Chair: Joseph G. Mangone, MD
• Chair, Surgery & Anesthesia & Critical Care Departments: Jennifer Ronecker, MD
  • Vice Chair: Joseph Graziano, MD
• Immediate Past President: Dustin J. Rayhorn, MD
• Members-at-Large: Wassim Ballan, MD; Kathryn S. King, MD; Neil R. Singhal, MD; Darcy M. Winterland, MD

Active Staff Qualifications

• Be involved in a minimum of seventy-five patient contacts at the Hospital over a 36-month period. Patient contact includes any admission, consultation, or procedure, response to emergency calls, evaluation, treatment or service performed in any facility operated by the Hospital. 
• Members are appointed to the Active Staff category at initial appointment where it is anticipated they will meet this criterion. If the Member has not completed a minimum of seventy-five patient contacts over a 36-month period, the category status will be changed to Associate. Otherwise, after initial appointment, category status will be assigned at reappointment time based on contact activity during the previous 36-month period or can be re-evaluated at any time by request of the Member.

Associate Staff Qualifications

• Be interested in the clinical affairs of the hospital and hold privileges to actively manage patient care or to refer and follow hospitalized patients.
• Admit or otherwise be involved in the care or treatment of a minimum of one (1) patient contact but less than seventy-five patient contacts within a 36-month period.
• Engage in the active practice of medicine such that the Medical Staff and Governing Board can assess the Practitioner’s compliance with membership and privileging requirements.

Affiliate

• The Affiliate Medical Staff category is comprised of physicians who have an active practice within the geographic service area of the Hospital as defined by the Board who wish to be affiliated with the Hospital but do not admit, manage, treat, or provide care to patients in the Hospital.
• Affiliate Medical Staff members do not have clinical privileges and may not write inpatient orders or progress notes or perform diagnostic studies or therapeutic interventions on inpatients.