The medical staff professional’s job is always going to be stressful, and there is no way of getting around that. Many of the areas of stress that MSPs deal with are ones that cannot be removed, but there are some things MSPs can do to reduce stress in the workplace, including honing their time...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 15
Strategic planning is a business term that many in healthcare environments have associated with “something administration has to do.” The challenge of an effective medical staff leader is to incorporate strategic planning into the organized medical staff’s functions.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 15
In helping hospitals design effective medical staff quality committees to oversee their peer review programs, The Greeley Company must often help hospitals define the responsibilities of these critical committees. One area of debate is whether hospital performance improvement (PI) activities...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 15
Direct-to-patient marketing by hospitals to tout a procedure, such as carotid stenting or artificial disk replacement, or service, such as hospitalists or a women’s center, is becoming commonplace.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 15
It seems no matter how hard MSPs and medical staff leaders to try communicate important credentialing changes to physicians, a few physicians will inevitably claim they were left out of the loop.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 14
The hunger for bilingual nurses is higher than ever due to the growing number of patients in the U.S. whose first language is not English; yet the numbers of minority nurses and those who speak a second language do not match the increasing patient population. For example, Hispanics currently...
