Voluntary Reporting
All employees and professional staff of the medical center are obligated to report potential or real violations of these codes and rules. Reports can be made:
- Confidentially by phone: (617) 667-1897
- By e-mail: conduct@bidmc.harvard.edu
- By writing to:
Office of Business Conduct
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
109 Brookline Avenue, Suite 300
Boston, MA 02215
- By paging the director of the Office of Business Conduct:
(617) 632-7243 Page ID# 38004
- By hotline: 888-753-6533
If the Medical Center determines that a report was knowingly fabricated, distorted, exaggerated, or minimized either to injure someone else or to inappropriately protect the caller, the reporter may be subject to disciplinary action. If an employee or professional staff member does not report conduct known to violate the medical center's policies, that individual may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment or revoking of privileges.
Acknowledgement
We thank Tenet Healthcare Corporation for allowing us to use their Standards of Conduct as a model for our Code of Conduct.
Last Revised October 29, 2003
Approved by BIDMC Board of Trustees
