Last month, we discussed having a comprehensive communication plan that allows the medical staff to communicate with all of its members efficiently and effectively by color-coding correspondence. Although critical to the medical staff's relationship with its physicians, a...
Understanding which medical staff members are eligible to serve as medical staff leaders can be challenging, particularly in markets in which hospitals compete aggressively with each other for patients and resources. On HCPro's e-mail talk group "Medical Staff Talk," one...
Two patients arrive in the ED with influenza during an outbreak. One is a 75-year-old man with several other chronic conditions and the other is a 45-year-old woman with three children. Who gets the last ventilator? Is it the woman because she is younger and has three children...
Current medical staff leaders may not realize that one of their primary responsibilities is finding physicians on the medical staff who have the ability to lead but whose latent talents may not have come to the notice of current officers, nominating committees, or hospital administrators. This...
One of the greatest challenges facing administrators today is providing the next generation of physician leaders with the basic education, training, and experience they need to become fully competent.
To get the wheels turning on the 14th annual Credentialing Resource Center Symposium, being held May 12-13 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, we've asked MSPs from across the country to submit self-made tools and forms that make their daily lives a little easier.
Back in what some physicians may consider the "good old days," board certification wasn't that big of a deal. It was a great accomplishment-if your specialty had a board to speak of-but it wasn't necessary to have a successful practice. Today, however, nearly every specialty has...
As the March 31 deadline approaches for implementing the changes brought about by the final version of Joint Commission standard MS.01.01.01, one question hangs in the air: Are you ready?
A physician is no stranger to the fact that healthcare is a team sport. A single physician cannot be responsible for the entire gamut of patient care—he or she needs a nurse to handle daily care, perhaps a specialist to offer advice for a particularly complex patient, and a...
