Today's free resource provides sample language that can be used to create your medical staff leadership job descriptions. Although physician leaders and others in the organization may "know" what the duties are involved with being, for example, medical staff president, it is important to have a...
Once leaders assume their roles at the beginning of the year, St. Jude Medical Center, in Fullerton, California, holds a medical staff retreat. For the past 5 years, it has been at Disney Land at the California Grand, which is really popular with the medical staff leaders. They used to have...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 4
The first study looking at if residents’ increased duty hours affected patient outcomes has been released and it shows that the justification for work limits may not be there. In an analysis of nearly 140,000 patients, less restrictive duty hour policies (i.e., number of consecutive hours worked...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 4
HCPro’s Credentialing Resource Center now has a Twitter account (@hcpro_crc) for an easy way to hear about our latest news, including updates about the upcoming...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 4
With the rise of healthcare services outside traditional hospital settings, outpatient practitioner credentialing and peer review are challenging medical staff services departments nationwide. We spoke with 2016 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium presenter Todd Sagin, MD, JD,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 4
Recent studies found that sending patients text message alerts reminding them to take their medication increased their chances of complying. A paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine looked at 16 studies which collectively tracked 3,000 chronically ill patients in different countries...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 4
"Do we have to demand to see the credentials and then call the college of every dentist, doctor, and mechanic we go to or is there a reasonable expectation that the business itself is … doing due diligence?”
- Patrick Burns, co-executive director of the Taxpayers Against...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 4
If you plan on registering for the CRC Symposium, I encourage you to do it today as our early bird price ends at midnight! As a reminder, you can receive $100 off your registration, and if you are a CRC member, you will receive $200 off your registration!
We spoke with 2016 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium presenter Todd Sagin, MD, JD, president of Sagin Healthcare Consulting Services LLC, about outpatient practitioner credentialing and peer review challenges. The following is his response to a question about accreditation...
Today’s free resource comes from Verify and Comply, Sixth Edition. This book includes credentialing and medical staff standards and regulations for the most popular regulators and accreditors in an easy-to-navigate manual. The free resource outlines the standards for...
