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ATTACHMENT 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 does not meet between spring and the fall of each year;

RESOLVED, the Medical Center Operating Board delegates to its Chair 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 as recommended to him by the Credentials Committee and the Clinical Staff Executive Committee from their May, June, July and August meetings each year; 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.