Medical Staff Briefing (MSB) provides the strategies and updated information medical staff leaders and medical staff services professionals need to confidently meet their daily challenges. This monthly resource provides time-saving tools, expert advice, and...
As more physicians seek employment and contracting opportunities, hospitals are forced to navigate what can feel like uncharted waters. Some hospitals are still reeling from the mistakes they made in the '90s when they gobbled up physician practices only to cough them back up...
When a hospital experiences an adverse event or a near miss, it is the duty of everyone involved in the incident to find out exactly what happened and why. The first step in getting to the bottom of any incident is to conduct a root cause analysis (RCA). Generally, the quality...
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
In reaction to concerns that accountable care organizations (ACOs) may put private practice physicians out of business, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in an interview with MedPage Today that ACOs don’t have to include hospitals. Rather than being dominated by...
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.