The story of Margaret McBride, a nun who was recently excommunicated for allowing an abortion to occur at Arizona-based St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, has made headlines during the past few months. The case prompted the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to write...
We’ve all heard the saying “Great leaders are made, not born.” But how does one make a leader? It’s a complicated recipe, but it involves one part self-education, one part opportunity, and one part mentorship.
We’ve all done it—read through tedious reports filled with paragraphs of blocky text, tables, and footnotes but walked away with zero useful information. We get so bogged down in the bulk of the information that we fail to see what the data mean. That’s where infographics...
It’s no secret that the current fee-for-service physician payment model is flawed. It rewards physicians for the volume of the care they provide, rather than the quality, and it does little to control costs.
Often, medical staff bylaws describe the processes for nominating, electing, and removing medical staff officers. However, bylaws often lack details new leaders need to know to hit the ground running or experienced leaders need to maintain optimal performance.
In some hospitals, MSPs collect ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) data and help orchestrate the entire process. In other hospitals, the quality department owns OPPE, and MSPs simply disseminate the...
Although MSPs often work behind the scenes, what they add to the focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) process directly affects the quality of physicians who practice at their hospitals.
A medical staff's peer review process doesn't have to be down in the dumps before it considers a redesign. Unlike many hospitals that revamp their peer review processes to overcome sour medical staff politics, a punitive culture, and gross miscommunications, Providence Hospital and...
When you combine the heart-wrenching possibility of taking away a colleague's livelihood with the threat of getting involved in a discrimination lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities or Age Discrimination in Employment Acts, it's no wonder that many medical staffs find it difficult to...
Taking the Certified Professional Medical Services Management (CPMSM) or Certified Provider Credentialing Specialist (CPCS) exams is a major undertaking. Many MSPs start studying a year or more before taking either exam and still feel nervous when they arrive at the test site.
