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...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 14
There is a saying making the rounds in healthcare today: If culture and strategy are not aligned, culture eats strategy for lunch every time. The Greeley Company has certainly found this to be true for medical staffs. In our work across the country, we have found that medical staff culture can...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 13
The Greeley Company has developed a way to describe physician performance measurement tools that reduces the time physicians spend on chart review while still providing accurate information on physician performance. It shifts the peer review process away from reviewing individual cases to...
