It has become a "best practice" for medical staff organizations to formulate in a written position description the essential functions and accountabilities of medical staff leaders, such as president (or chief) of the medical staff, department chair, and others. This is often the case in...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 9
In August, Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), in Boston, began writing an Internet Web log ("blog") called "Running a Hospital." Recently, Levy has received a mixture of praise and criticism for publishing hospital infection rates on his blog.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 8
Physician groups looking to expand their outpatient operating facilities are coming up against perceived unfair business competition over certificate of need applications before the North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 8
Many medical staff organizations are grappling with the issue of which practitioners should be privileged via the medical staff organization. This is not a simple issue and is complicated by the fact that there is a lot of "folklore" about what is required in this area to meet accreditation...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 7
Physicians with mental and behavioral health problems have a successful rehabilitation rate similar to that found for substance abuse disorders, 74 to 75%, and physicians with these disorders can safely be monitored while continuing to practice medicine, according to a study by the Physician...
