This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, credentialing and privileging, physician leadership,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 22
No focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) is perfect, and prospective FPPE has its weaknesses as well. Foremost among them is that a prospective focused review process cannot account for all potential variations or unexpected factors.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 22
Wondering how many facilities charge their medical staff members dues and what those funds are used for? Take this survey to see where your organization falls on the spectrum.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 22
About 60% of practicing physicians will experience burnout at some point in their careers, says Michael Krasner, MD, associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester in New York.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 6
As long as doctors treat patients effectively and efficiently, they are doing their jobs well, right? Maybe that was the case in years past, but the demands placed on today’s doctors are more complex than that. Although treating patients still remains at the heart of a doctor’s job description,...
Is the document you just filed in a physician’s confidential peer review file really considered a peer review document? Are you maintaining meeting minutes in such a way that if a physician sues the organization, he or she won’t be able to use them against the hospital in a court of law?
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 21
Hospitals often are approached with opportunities to align with physicians, and the hospital often decides it desires an alignment relationship and initiates the “ask.” How does an organization decide how to say yes, and how do they decide to pass and say no thanks?
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 21
Congratulations to our May contest winner, Iracema Navarro, medical staff coordinator at Promise Hospital, San Diego! This sample policy of the physician report card won Iracema and a colleague free...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 21
Before processing a low- or no-volume practitioner’s request for renewed privileges, hospital and medical staff leaders should engage the practitioner in a collegial conversation to determine whether he or she is still interested in privileges that authorize him or her to treat patients on an...
