Over the past several years, healthcare quality has come under increased scrutiny. In 2001, the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report Crossing the Quality Chasm highlighted the lack of consistency in the quality of care in the American healthcare system. The IOM report showed...
When you attend conferences focused on medical staff services issues, you may come home eager to implement a new strategy or update a form, but because of the information overload, your efforts may come screeching to a halt. As you try to remember what a speaker said about peer...
My first consulting assignment involved a surgeon on a small medical staff with chronic depression. He would experience meltdowns in the middle of the night when nurses attempted to rouse him from a fitful sleep. On two occasions he slammed down the phone after being asked to...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 20, Issue 11
Editor's note: In this article, Jonathan H. Burroughs, MD, MBA, FACPE, CMSL, and Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS, both senior consultants for The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Danvers, MA, discuss issues that can arise around granting credentials and privileges to...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 20, Issue 11
The nursing profession is in an upheaval. Nurses want more opportunities to learn alongside physicians, in classrooms and in direct patient care settings with more and longer residency programs in hospitals.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 20, Issue 11
The nursing profession is in an upheaval. Nurses want more opportunities to learn alongside physicians, in classrooms and in direct patient care settings with more and longer residency programs in hospitals.
