In an ideal world, the only people who know the reason for a physician’s leave of absence are the members of the physician health committee, the chief of staff, and the hospital CEO. “If more [people] than that know, you lose the trust, confidentiality, and advocacy that physicians expect,” says...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 47
If a group of physicians approached your hospital about doing an underarrangement, the hospital might immediately say no because underarrangements come prepackaged with negative legal consequences. However, the hospital might attempt to craft another kind of model that would obtain the same or...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 46
Residents and fellows who are working in the hospital in a capacity outside their training programs must be credentialed using the medical staff process. If they are still in their training period, they do not qualify for medical staff membership because they have not completed their training.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 46
If a group of physicians approached your hospital about doing an underarrangement (a hospital contracts with a third party to provide a service to the hospital and its patients), the hospital might immediately say no because underarrangements come prepackaged with negative legal consequences.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 46
Depression can be a stand-alone impairment or it can be linked with burnout. The overall physician suicide rate is between 28 and 40 per 100,000 physicians as compared to the general population rate of 12 per 100,000, according to the Council on Scientific Affairs.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 46
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, credentialing and privileging, physician leadership,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 46
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and governance, credentialing and privileging, physician leadership,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 45
This week’s Free Form Friday giveaway is a focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) form for newly requested privileges. It was submitted by Angela Stokes-Middleton, CPCS, manager in the office of medical staff affairs at Hoboken (NJ) University Medical Center. Angela says that she uses...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 45
Most candidates will expect some paid time off for vacation. Yet, as the seven-on/seven-off work schedule becomes more popular, vacation time has become less of a given.
