Rhode Island General Laws 5-37-28. Communications of information among healthcare facilities
Any licensed healthcare facility, acting by and through its chief executive officer or his or her designee, may, upon the request of any other licensed healthcare facility, communicate to the chief executive officer of the requesting facility or his or her designee any or all information available regarding circumstances under which the privileges of any physician were changed as described in § 5-37-9(3). No healthcare facility, chief executive officer (or his or her designee), nor any member of a peer-review board of a licensed healthcare facility communicating information under this section, or other person participating in or providing information to this peer-review board, shall have any liability arising out of this communication, unless the person making this communication is not acting in good faith.
History of Section.
P.L. 1988, ch. 572, § 1.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 5-37-28
- Board: means the Rhode Island board of medical licensure and discipline or any committee or subcommittee thereof. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-37-1
- Healthcare facility: means any institutional health-service provider licensed pursuant to the provisions of chapter 17 of Title 23. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-37-1
- Peer-review board: means any committee of a state or local professional association or society including a hospital association, or a committee of any licensed healthcare facility, or the medical staff thereof, or any committee of a medical-care foundation or health-maintenance organization, or any committee of a professional-service corporation or nonprofit corporation employing twenty (20) or more practicing professionals, organized for the purpose of furnishing medical service, or any staff committee or consultant of a hospital-service or medical-service corporation, the function of which, or one of the functions of which, is to evaluate and improve the quality of health care rendered by providers of healthcare services or to determine that healthcare services rendered were professionally indicated or were performed in compliance with the applicable standard of care or that the cost of health care rendered was considered reasonable by the providers of professional healthcare services in the area and shall include a committee functioning as a utilization-review committee under the provisions of Rhode Island General Laws 5-37-1
- Person: means any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, trust or estate, state or political subdivision, or instrumentality of a state. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-37-1
- Physician: means a person with a license to practice allopathic or osteopathic medicine in this state under the provisions of this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-37-1