This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, credentialing and privileging, and other important...
The hospitalist movement has changed the dynamics of leadership. Traditionally, physicians who had upward of 20 years of clinical experience and were nearing retirement were chosen as leaders, sometimes regardless of their capacity to do the job well. Today, thanks to the under-40 crowd that is...
Hospitals and health systems are increasingly interested in designing and implementing clinical specialty service lines. Clinical service lines are designed to cut across organizational and disciplinary boundaries to organize patient care around one of the following:
• Specific diseases,...
Ask any MSP, and he or she will tell you that having the funds available to attend conferences and purchase educational materials, such as books and newsletter subscriptions, is essential to having a well-functioning medical staff services department (MSSD). However, those funds are often the...
As a medical staff leader or MSP, if you had to sum up your duties in three sentences, could you do it? Could you also make it sound appealing enough to convince a stranger to move 1,000 miles to take over your position?
Do your hospital governing board members understand why peer review is such a contentious issue among physicians? Can they map out the credentialing process? Have they read the medical staff bylaws? For many hospitals, the answer to these questions is “no,”
