Policies and procedures should be clear, easy to follow, efficient, and effective. Streamlined bylaws make it especially important for medical staffs to have a strong set of policies and procedures governing physician expectations and behaviors.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 38
The title of doctor is no longer reserved for physicians, as nurses, physical therapists, and pharmacists head back to school to earn a doctorate degree in their fields, and with it, the prefix accompanying their name. As more healthcare professions earn doctorate...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 37
The strength of relationships and goodwill that comes from physicians, administrators, and boards spending time together in social activities both in and away from the hospital can be enormous.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 37
One way to involve the medical staff in the regulatory readiness process and ensure that communication filters down to all divisions is to identify and assign a physician regulatory liaison for each division.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 37
With the threat of malpractice lawsuits and focus on performance measures on the rise, physicians are increasingly providing patients with excessive care.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 36
How can hospitalists maintain their place in the hospital setting as Medicare expenditures are decreased? Are they wiling to take a pay cut in order to do so?
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 36
The National Practitioner Data Bank is blocking the public from its online Public Use Data File while it examines ways to enhance protection of its confidential information. According to the NPDB’s web site, "the Division of Practitioner Data Banks is reviewing its procedures for disclosing...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 36
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, and...
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