Quality improvement (QI) involves proactively evaluating an organization's functions, services, products, and processes on an ongoing basis and asking how each of those areas can improve. It focuses not only on improving the status quo, but also preventing certain problems from emerging in the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 2
Prepare for physician intervention
Dear medical staff leader,
In last week's Tip of the Week, we discussed taking a proactive stance to poor performance. Establishing a series of interventions as soon as a physician's performance appears on the radar screen, although sometimes seen...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 1
A medical facility's culture, size, and location (urban or rural) will dictate the specifics of medical staff leaders' duties, but all medical staff leader job descriptions should contain some common criteria.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 1
Many medical staff leaders are uncomfortable approaching physicians whose performance has been deemed questionable and often wait until conclusive data or an adverse event forces them into action. Managing poor performance should be thought of as a series of escalating interventions designed to...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 9, Issue 1
Many organizations have faced the challenges posed by a practitioner on the medical staff who wishes to rescind a leave-of-absence (LOA). Consider this scenario: A practitioner who has been part of the medical staff for a number of years opts to take a LOA for...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 50
