Dear medical staff leader:
How many hours has your medical executive committee (MEC) spent discussing professional conduct, emergency department call coverage, or medical records completion? Or the practitioner’s actions that fall below the expectations established by the medical staff and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 44
Medical staffs often have categories and subcategories to describe the status of physicians who practice at a hospital. However, such subdivision is unnecessary. A medical staff should contain just three general categories:
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 43
Dear medical Staff leader:
Today’s medical staff leaders are encountering many challenges, but one of the most difficult-and one we have been least trained to meet-is confronting other practitioners about issues concerning clinical competence, behavior, responsibilities, or ethics.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 43
The number of privileging disputes occurring in hospitals is growing rapidly. It’s easy to understand this trend if you examine how medicine has evolved. In the ’good old days,’ physicians of all specialties had defined areas of turf on the playing field and specialties didn’t cross those...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 43
Decision-making is the essence of an effective group. Meetings usually include action items that call for group decision-making. Some action items require creativity and brainstorming, while others require more forceful negotiation and trade-offs.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 42
Dear medical staff leader:
Medical staff leaders need to be aware of diversity-related conflicts between medical staff members as well as those that can arise between medical staff members and the hospital staff.
