Medical Staff Services

• President: Dustin Rayhorn, MD
• Vice President: Nathan Page, MD
• Chair, Credentials Committee: Deborah Tom, MD
• Chair, Peer Review Committee: Christina Conrad, DO
• Chair, Anesthesia & Critical Care Services: Joseph Graziano, MD
• Chair, Medicine Department: Shahan Fernando, MD
• Chair, Surgery Department: Lisa McMahon, MD
• Immediate Past President: Blake Bulloch, MD
• Members-at-Large: Wassim Ballan, MD; Gwen Grimsby, MD; Joshua Koch, MD

Active Staff Qualifications

• Be involved in a minimum of fifty patient contacts at the Hospital over a 24-month period. A patient contact includes any admission, consultation, or procedure, response to emergency call, evaluation, treatment or service performed in any facility operated by the Hospital. 
• Members may be appointed to this category at initial appointment where it is anticipated they will meet this criterion. If they have not completed a minimum of fifty patient contacts over a 24-month period, their category status will be changed to Associate. Otherwise, after initial appointment, category status will be assigned at reappointment time based on contact activity during the previous 24-month period or can be re-evaluated at any time by request of the Medical Staff member.

Active Staff Qualifications

• Be interested in the clinical affairs of the hospital and hold Privileges to actively manage patient care or to refer and follow hospitalized patients.
• Admit or otherwise be involved in the care or treatment of less than fifty patient contacts within a 24 month period.
• Engage in the active practice of medicine at some location, to allow the Medical Staff and Board to assess the Practitioner’s compliance with membership and privileging requirements.

Affiliate

• The Affiliate Medical Staff category is comprised of physicians who have an active practice within the geographic service area of the Hospital as defined by the Board who wish to be affiliated with the Hospital but do not admit, manage, treat, or provide care to patients in the Hospital.
• Affiliate Medical Staff members do not have clinical privileges and may not write inpatient orders or progress notes or perform diagnostic studies or therapeutic interventions on inpatients.