When defining indicators to measure physician competence, medical staffs have stumbled on the question: Is “zero” really data? The answer is yes—with some caveats that depend on the type of indicator and the nature of the physician activity. Robert Marder, MD, CMSL, vice...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 5
Are you interested in sharing your strategies for tackling contemporary medical staff challenges? HCPro and The Greeley Medical Staff Institute are currently looking for medical staff leaders, medical staff services professionals, and hospitalist program leaders to speak at the first annual...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 5
It’s a new year, which means you have new medical staff leaders on your team. We can’t bring you the palm trees and warm breezes you experience attending an off-site seminar, but our virtual workshop can deliver the education your medical staff leaders need to navigate the road ahead.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 5
Once the medical staff services department receives a completed application from a physician and verifies all applicable information, the medical staff can choose to speed up the credentialing and privileging process if the application does not raise concern. Applications that include these red...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 5
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) rules state that the hospital must have a call roster naming specific physicians (not groups) for the specialties on call. The call roster must be posted conspicuously, at all times, in the emergency department and be maintained for...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 5
Dr. Anna Pou, who stayed with her patients at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans for several days despite intense heat and no electricity, was accused of murdering several patients during those harrowing days. Most of the charges were later dropped, but her story inspired the development of ...
