During your next medical staff meeting, try this exercise: Have everyone in the room read the case study below and decide individually whether or not Community Hospital should hire Dr. Brown. Then, ask everyone to share why he or she chose that particular outcome. Set aside 15 minutes for a...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 25
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 25
Does your hospitalist program performance dashboard include hospitalist-specific data or does it only address the group’s performance as a whole? Take the poll at MedicalStaffLeader.com.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 24
The Joint Commission has added antidiscrimination language to MS.06.01.07 and MS.07.01.01 that prevents medical staffs from making medical staff appointment and credentialing decisions based on gender, race, creed, or national origin.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 24
No. When deciding whether a document should be classified as peer review, MSPs and medical staff leaders should check their state peer review statutes. “A lot of states have peer review statutes of their own in addition to the [Health Care Quality Improvement Act] statute,” says Annemarie Martin...
