Best Practices for Wellbeing Committees

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Best Practices for Wellbeing Committees 2025

2025 Update - Navigating the Challenges

Registration is closed.

The 2025 series provides updated content with case examples to show the practical application of the principles.

Six 90min Videoconference Sessions every other Thursday
(12:15pm - 1:45pm) from June 26 - September 4, 2025
Registration fee is $695 for 6 sessions, with a reduced fee for additional persons from the same hospital/group who register at the same time on the same registration form: $625 for the second person and $550 for each person over two.
Session #1: Thursday, June 26, 2025

Welcome and Introduction to the Series

First Meeting with the Physician Referred to the Wellbeing Committee
Katren Tyler, MD and Karen Miotto, MD 

  • Preparing for the first meeting
  • What to tell the physician in advance
  • What info to have gathered before you meet with the physician
  • Holding it: how to start; kinds of resistance / push back
  • What information is given to the person who referred the physician to the Wellbeing Committee
Session #2: Thursday, July 10, 2025

Evaluating the Physician and the Situation
John G. Rosenberg, MD

  • Deciding on whether a comprehensive evaluation is the next step
  • Preparing for it
  • Criteria for selecting evaluators approved by the committee
  • Communicating with the evaluator: what information to provide
  • What to expect in the report and when to expect the report
Session #3: Thursday, July 24, 2025

Monitoring and Monitoring Agreements
Gregory Skipper, MD

  • What will protect patient care and the hospital/medical group and simultaneously support the physician
  • What are you monitoring for; how do you monitor for that
  • Where does drug testing fit into the agreement
  • Content of and wording of monitoring agreements
  • Who does the monitoring and how they do it
Session #4: Thursday, Aug 7, 2025

On-going Work of the Committee with the Physician Being Monitored
Dalia Balsamo, MD

  • What is the Committee’s responsibility when a monitoring company does the monitoring
  • What to consider when there is a failure to comply with a requirement
  • What the Committee needs to know about drug testing
  • How and why specific requirements in a monitoring agreement can be modified over time
Session #5: Thursday, Aug 21, 2025

Confidentiality in Recordkeeping and Reporting 
Tension and Trust: Changing Demands on Wellbeing Committees for Confidentiality
David Balfour, Esq.

  • Who needs to know what, when, and why
  • What information to keep in records that remain available to the medical staff/medical group
Session #6: Thursday, September 4, 2025

Policies and Procedures: Differences for Different Settings
Shelley Carder, Esq.

  • What your policies should include and why
  • Different elements specific to differently structured settings (medical groups, Foundations, independent medical staffs; HR Departments; unionized physicians; employed physicians)

Closing Review of all Case Illustrations

Please Note: Because this is a 6-part program, registration for this series is for ALL of the sessions.  There is no prorated registration for a single date. You are encouraged to participate in the full series, but attendance for all 6 is not required for CME credit. Your certificate of attendance will document the sessions you attended. There is no refund for a missed session; registrants will have access to a recording of a missed session, but CME credit is not available for a recorded session.

The sessions are open to all interested persons involved in physician health activities. They are designed particularly for those who have a role with a wellbeing committee of a medical staff or medical group and/or those with a leadership or peer review role in the medical staff or medical group.

Questions?

Contact California Public Protection & Public Health (CPPPH): gjara@cppph.org