The medical staff credentialing and privileging session is an essential part of the survey process. It aims to assess the implementation of credentialing and privileging procedures for the medical staff and other licensed practitioners who are privileged through the medical staff process.
Hospitals seeking to develop a workplace violence prevention program must do so with a multidisciplinary team in order for the program to be comprehensive and effective. This team should be led by the designated leader and encompass members from various key departments in the hospital, including...
Workplace violence in healthcare remains a serious matter. About 73% of all nonfatal workplace violence-related injuries involved healthcare workers in 2018, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Whatever the reason, a large number of physicians who have a low volume or no volume of clinical care will nevertheless want to apply or reapply to your hospital for membership and privileges. They may not meet your criteria for current competency for that set of privileges, and therein lies the...
In our latest practitioner check-in, we catch up with Teresa Miller, CPMSM, CPCS, senior medical staff specialist at INTEGRIS Health in Oklahoma City. She offers a window into the nuanced role that entails meticulous file reviews, collaboration with department chairs, and active...
MSPs and credentialing leaders have another case from which to draw lessons on how to handle late-career clinicians, namely the Scripps Clinical Medical Group settlement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in December.
In 1970, the term servant-leader was coined by Robert Greenleaf in a published essay. In the essay, Greenleaf tells the story of reading Herman Hesse’s novel The Journey to the East and being introduced to the character of Leo. The book details a timeless pilgrimage in which the...
Effective immediately, CMS says texting of patient information and of patient orders is permissible—with some caveats. In a memo to CMS state survey agency directors on February 8, CMS noted that due to technological advances in encryption and more secure interfaces between information...
The Accreditation Commission for Health Care’s (ACHC) recent Quality Review Edition of its publication TheSurveyor for acute care hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAH) examined the most...
Last month we shared a portion of the live Q&A session from the National Provider Enrollment Virtual Event, during which our panel of expert speakers fielded questions about various pain points related to the provider enrollment role. The following is the second part of the live Q&A...
