Best Practices for Wellbeing Committees

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Best Practices for Wellbeing Committees 2025

2025 Update - Navigating the Challenges

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