Advanced practice professionals (APP) can bring valuable insight to medical staff committee roles and reduce the pressure on physician leaders to take on more than they can chew.
Encroaching physician shortages and quality-driven payment reforms are shaking up traditional medical staff compositions and changing the course of practitioner privileging and credentialing. As a result, growing ranks of midwives, NPs, PAs, clinical pharmacists, and other allied health...
During our medical staff quality committee meeting, one member commented that committee members should be compensated for their time, especially when serving on committees that involve reviewing material prior to the meeting. What are your thoughts on compensating committee members? Should...
The spectrum of leadership development ranges from the “here’s the gavel, the meeting is Tuesday” approach to obtaining a master’s degree in business administration, medical management, or healthcare administration. For most physicians, something in between these approaches is the most...
Most facilities are unlikely to be able to pull together the entire medical staff on any single issue, and a major change to the privileging process is even less likely to draw unanimous support. This is why changing to a criteria-based core privileging system requires the support of a medical...
Once upon a time, key medical staff leadership positions (officers, department chairs, credentials chair, peer review chair) were viewed as important voluntary positions to help the medical staff carry out its board designated responsibility to ensure the care provided primarily by individuals...
Peer review ensures that a hospital assesses the performance of individuals granted clinical privileges via the activities of its medical staff, and uses the results of such assessments to improve care. This week’s free resource is a sample form for documenting OPPE results from...
Healthcare today is evolving at such a rate that it is difficult to keep track of it all. Practitioners' patterns of practice are under more scrutiny today than they have ever been. Regulatory agencies keep “turning up the heat” in their attempt to ensure that providers are thoroughly evaluated...
