In a May 15, 2008 article in the Boston Globe, Bard Group president Marc A. Bard, MD, explained the seriousness of the Beverly (Massachusetts) Hospital’s medical staff vote on its CEO, Stephen R. Laverty.

The article, MDs vote to rebuff hospital's executive: Parent company says Beverly CEO has its support, by Globe Staff Writer Jeffrey Krasner, quoted Dr. Bard on the long-term lack of collaboration that typically catalyzes such a vote.

"A vote of no confidence from the medical staff is the nuclear option in every healthcare system," said Dr. Marc A. Bard, a partner at Bard Group, a Needham management-consulting firm that works with hospitals. "They are quite rare, and in my experience they represent a chronic lack of attention to the issues of the medical staff rather than a response to an acute egregious act. In my experience, they are often fatal for the leadership."

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