When the medical staff and hospital management negotiate ED call compensation or the overall ED call schedule, it’s important for both parties to come to the table with a best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA).
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 9
The quality improvement or quality assurance department within a hospital typically organizes and oversees root cause analyses (RCA), but the medical staff plays an important role as well. During RCAs, it’s important to uphold a blame-free environment so the RCA team can pinpoint exactly what...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 9
Congratulations to this month’s winner, Karen Vineyard, CPMSM, manager of medical affairs at Lapeer Regional Medical Center! Karen gets one free seat to the 2011 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium in Las Vegas for her form, a physician improvement policy.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 9
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 credentialing...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 9
Tri-City Healthcare (Oceanside, CA) Board of Director Kathleen Sterling has been censured six times in the past six months, but her most recent outburst may be the last straw for the other board members, reports 10News.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 9
Finding time to teach residents at the bedside is difficult. With new resident duty hour rules taking effect later this year, there will be even fewer opportunities for faculty to teach. Faculty members will have to make the most of the little time they have to educate residents.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 8
Gainsharing is an approach in which a specific group of physicians does something that creates financial savings for a hospital, and the hospital shares a portion of those savings with the physicians.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 8
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...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 8
A recent letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association delves into what, exactly, self-identified physicians are Tweeting about, and the results may make patients uncomfortable.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 8
Those first few days and weeks are critical, so it’s important to plan your orientation such that new hospitalists aren’t forced to dive headfirst into the deep end on their first day.
