Common use of Staff Privileges Clause in Contracts

Staff Privileges. Staff privileges (full, courtesy, consulting, etc.) in all areas and specialties are granted, maintained, upgraded and withdrawn in a nondiscriminatory manner, and standards for professional qualification are applied uniformly without regard to race, color, or national origin. No requirement for membership in an organization may be established if at the time covered by such requirement the organization discriminated. Disciplinary actions of all kinds, including the withdrawal of staff privileges, are administered without discrimination. Restrictions on the granting of staff privileges are not applied so as to perpetuate past discrimination. For example, if a hospital, which formerly admitted general practitioners but excluded minority group physicians from its staff, subsequently adopts a policy restricting staff membership to specialists while retaining general practitioners already on staff, it must admit any general practitioner who would have been qualified formerly but for his race, color, or national origin.