Medical Staff of Childrens Hospital & Research Center Oakland

To oversee the professional work performed in the hospital in the care delivered to patients, to maintain and enhance the quality of care provided to patients, and to assure patient safety in the provision of that care, to provide for the self-governance of the medical staff in order to assure the medical staff entity's independence in the oversight of patient safety and the quality of care delivered to patients, to initiate and maintain bylaws, rules and regulations for proper functioning and self-governance of medical staff, and to provide a means whereby issues concerning the medical staff and hospital administration may be discussed by the staff with the hospital administration and hospital governing body.