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Board approves medical-staff consent agenda; policies tweak IV-contrast GFR threshold and expand occupational-health RN duties
Summary
The Tahoe Forest Hospital District board approved the medical-staff consent agenda and the broader consent calendar 5-0; policy updates include changing the IV-contrast glomerular filtration rate threshold from 60 to greater than 30 and a new occupational-health registered-nurse policy that allows limited lab review and patient outreach.
The Tahoe Forest Hospital District Board of Directors approved the medical-staff consent agenda and the full consent calendar by unanimous vote, accepting multiple policy updates and procedural summaries the medical staff executive committee presented.
Dr. Koch and the medical-staff executive committee summarized a slate of largely technical policy changes that medical leadership recommended for approval. Key technical policy changes noted during the summary included updates in interventional radiology (added risk statements, RVU minimums and daily-coverage clarifications) and in imaging policies.
In the radiology policies the board was specifically told that the hospital changed the…
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