My first consulting assignment involved a surgeon on a small medical staff with chronic depression. He would experience meltdowns in the middle of the night when nurses attempted to rouse him from a fitful sleep. On two occasions he slammed down the phone after being asked to...
When you attend conferences focused on medical staff services issues, you may come home eager to implement a new strategy or update a form, but because of the information overload, your efforts may come screeching to a halt. As you try to remember what a speaker said about peer...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 20, Issue 11
Practitioners have demanding schedules and do not have time to decipher encrypted messages. Medical staff leaders and MSPs should mitigate the risk of practitioners ignoring ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) reports by producing reports that engage their interest...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 20, Issue 11
I read a couple of interesting management pieces that confirmed my discovery that when it comes to some aspects of credentialing, less is really more. Here's how I came to that conclusion.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 42
On-time starts and case volume are two popular metrics that help to measure a physician’s performance in the ASC setting, according to Sandy Berreth, the administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center in Baxter, Minn. In an article by Becker’s ASC Review, Berreth states that whether ASCs use...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 41