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...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 14
In addition to the report itself, the medical staff office should provide physicians with additional materials to help them understand the report. The goal of most reports is to be concise and easy to read. Therefore, it is best not to include more explanatory detail than necessary in the actual...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 14
Ask a physician leader what his or her job is, and you most often get a blank stare. After some fumbling, the individual likely provides a vague description such as, "Leading the medical staff," or "Running the department." Why? Because hospitals don’t typically provide physician leaders with...
