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J. Bruman, Library Manager Natividad Medical Center P.O. Box 81611, Salinas CA 93912-1611 831-755-4316 831-758-3082 fax




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Subject: REF Q: hospital-wide vs. department-specific policies
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:21:18 -0800





This question is for those of us who are involved in managing, developing or reviewing our organization's Policies --

Does your organization make any distinction between hospital-wide policies (that apply to everyone) versus department-specific policies (that apply to or are only of concern to a single department)? And if you do make such a distinction, do you have any criteria that you use to distinguish between them?

We are looking at a (future) project to begin adding departmental policies to our Policy database, which at present contains only hospital-wide policies. We have no established criteria for deciding which is which, and the CNO has acknowledged that there may be a lot of "re-assigning" to do. I'd like to be proactive and present her with some examples of how other hospitals make this distinction, or whether they even do. So any ideas, checklists, rules, etc. would be useful!

Many thanks,

J. Bruman, Library Manager Natividad Medical Center P.O. Box 81611, Salinas CA 93912-1611 831-755-4316 831-758-3082 fax