Kris Rockwell, manager of medical staff services at Children's Hospital in Omaha, NE, writes about having categories for membership and categories for privileges.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 51
The Joint Commission on Dec. 21 posted to its Web site a proposed standard for disruptive behavior. The Joint Commission seeks comments on the proposed standard, LD.3.15, which is open for field review until Jan. 24, 2007.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 50
Fast tracking of applications is a worthwhile goal, for seldom is there any benefit in having the process be delayed. A thorough, prompt, and fair interview process is essential, and requires a system in which the hospital and its medical staff fully acknowledge that the tasks of credentialing...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 49
While you are contemplating how you plan to acknowledge your outgoing medical staff leaders, also think about how you are going to prepare the leaders that start new positions on January 1st.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 48
Organizations that are determined to dot the Is and cross the Ts when it comes to adding new privileges/technology should follow several steps before addressing criteria for competency.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 47
Delegates to the American Medical Association's (AMA) House of Delegates criticized the JCAHO for not heeding the input of physicians in adopting new standards, and sounded the alarm on standards they view as undermining physician autonomy, at the group's policymaking meeting in Las Vegas in...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 46
In many medical staff organizations, physician leaders are finding that old categories don't fit new realities of how physicians and other practitioners relate to the hospital and participate in medical staff organization activities.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 45
Last week, I was working with one of our Medical Staff Institute clients (Marshall Medical Center in Placerville, CA) and happened to see an article that Marshall's medical staff coordinator wrote for the California Association Medical Staff Services.
The article made me laugh out loud,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 44
As medical staff organizations all over the country prepare to make committee assignments that take effect on January 1, take time to thoroughly evaluate the effectiveness of your current committees.
