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Courts rule on physician privileges. (column)

Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management

| October 01, 1988 | May, Kenneth | COPYRIGHT 1988 Vendome Group LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Can a nursing home refuse to allow a physician whose practices it does not think are safe to see its patients? Surprisingly, a Kansas court thinks the answer is no, at least in some circumstances.

Crestview Manor, a Kansas ICF, revoked the privileges of Terry McGeeney, M.D., because he requested that all laboratory procedures for his patients be performed at his office-run lab. Since the lab was not certified, it did not meet the nursing home's quality-of-care standards. The facility also felt that McGeeney had been uncooperative with its staff, delinquent in his care of patients, and lax in keeping medical record entries and patients' records. A legal ...

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