Privileging disputes, reappointment challenges, and communication lapses can make it difficult to exercise credentialing and privileging best practices. During the webcast,...
This week, CRC Daily dives into the world of medical staff and physician leadership. Today’s excerpt from The Medical Executive Committee Manual arms MEC members with an easy step-by-step process for developing effective practitioner performance reports.
10-Step...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 48
The Commonwealth Fund recently released the results of its Scorecard on State Health System Performance, which shows that states have improved. Scores are based on a list of 42 indictors divided into five categories: access and affordability, avoidable hospital use and cost, equity, healthy...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 48
A few key characteristics differentiate good physician leaders from high-performing ones, according to a study of more than 100 physician executives conducted by Witt/Kieffer, Hogan Assessment Systems, and Providence Health & Services. The researchers found that physician leaders that are...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 48
The percentage of physicians experiencing burnout is on the rise, according to a study published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Using physician survey data from 2011 and 2014, the researchers found that about 54% of respondents showed at least one symptom of burnout based on the Maslach Burnout...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 48
“On the surface, it may seem like a reasonable thing to penalize hospitals that don’t successfully ‘get their patients better enough’ to avoid readmission. However, the problem is highly complicated, and such a crude way of thinking about the problem (i.e., blaming it all on the hospital and the...
