The Joint Commission (TJC) standards call for an objective, evidence-based process when deciding whether to grant or deny a privilege(s) or to renew existing ones. Criteria must be consistently evaluated to determine a practitioner’s ability to provide patient care, treatment, and services...
As hospitals diversify their medical staffs and contend with mounting regulatory efforts to ally payment and performance, interdisciplinary collaboration has emerged as a major driver of financial health, medical staff stability, and care quality. By extension, collaboration is also the...
As a medical staff leader, it is important to understand that the days of a medical staff secretary in a medical staff office are history. It is true that in years past, the work was primarily clerical and secretarial. However, as healthcare has evolved and grown in complexity...
