This is the latest in a continuing series of articles designed for medical staff leaders and their associates. This month, Greeley and Williams discuss a possibly problematic situation that can arise during a merger when tensions are already running high.
Think of your hand on a smooth surface. When you’re a department chair evaluating a credentials file, that’s what it should be like, because most applications are smooth and have no red flags.
Over the years, specialty boards, despite the fact that they themselves often discuss the content of their examinations on their own websites and even offer a range of paid proprietary test-prep courses, have increased their efforts to go after practicing physicians who may or may not have...
ECRI, a long-standing patient safety organization in Pennsylvania, has listed verbal and physical violence against healthcare staff as its second-most important patient safety concern for 2023.
As a medical staff leader, it is important to understand from the start that the days of a medical staff secretary in a medical staff office are history. It is true that in years past, the work was primarily clerical and secretarial. However, as healthcare has evolved and grown in complexity, so...
Privileges are permissions that have been granted to a physician or other licensed independent practitioner to provide specific patient care services, which may include the ability to admit, treat, manage, and perform procedures. The term “privileging” refers to the process the hospital and...
