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B. APPROVAL OF TEMPORARY DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY
REGARDING CREDENTIALING ACTIONS

WHEREAS, the Medical Center Operating Board has the authority and responsibility for appointing and reappointing clinicians to the Clinical Staff of the Medical Center, as well as for granting appropriate clinical privileges to such clinicians and for granting appropriate clinical privileges to Allied Health Professionals and certain other healthcare practitioners to practice within the Medical Center; and

WHEREAS, the Medical Center Operating Board will not meet between May and September 2003, and in the interim, a number of Medical Center Clinical Staff members, Allied Health Professionals and other healthcare practitioners will need to be appointed, reappointed and/or granted clinical privileges; and

WHEREAS, the Medical Center may confer temporary clinical privileges for not more than ninety (90) days; and

WHEREAS, the Medical Center Operating Board desires to delegate temporarily to the Chair of the Medical Center Operating Board its authority to appoint and reappoint clinicians to the Clinical Staff of the Medical Center, and to grant appropriate clinical privileges to such clinicians, and to grant appropriate clinical privileges to Allied Health Professionals and certain other healthcare practitioners;

RESOLVED that the Medical Center Operating Board delegates to the Chair of the Medical Center Operating Board the authority to appoint and reappoint clinicians to the Clinical Staff of the Medical Center, and to grant appropriate clinical privileges to such clinicians and to grant appropriate clinical privileges to Allied Health Professionals and certain other healthcare practitioners to practice within the Medical Center; and

RESOLVED FURTHER that such delegation of authority be limited to those persons recommended by the Credentials Committee and the Clinical Staff Executive Committee from their May, June and July 2003 meetings; and

RESOLVED FURTHER that all such authority delegated to the Chair of the Medical Center Operating Board shall revert to the Medical Center Operating Board immediately upon the conclusion of the period delegated above.