Whether you put it at the top of the list or include it as a last-but-not-least, organizational skills are a vital element of an MSP’s work. Those skills sometimes spill out of an MSP’s core job description into projects that help medical staff members.
Hospital leaders wouldn't think to ask a private practice physician to work in the hallway—an office is non-negotiable. Yet, hospitals frequently ask hospitalists to do just that. Anecdotal evidence suggests that few hospitals have allotted appropriate office space for hospitalist...
As we mentioned in last month's column, an increasing number of hospitals are choosing to employ physicians. Unfortunately, many organizations have a shotgun approach to employment and hire any physician who qualifies for medical staff membership and clinical privileges. Or worse,...
For MSPs, starting a new job means learning a new set of medical staff bylaws and processes, finding the way around a new facility, meeting dozens of medical staff members, and navigating a new social and political atmosphere. If that wasn't harrowing enough, most medical staff...
There is no magic formula to help hospitals determine which leaders to compensate and how much. One facility could compensate the medical staff president $50,000 per year but not compensate any other leaders. Another facility could compensate the medical staff president $30,000 per...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 5
I’m sitting in my office, head in one hand, mocha in the other, trying to fulfill the request for privileging criteria, P&P, and an introduction letter to our medical staff for a procedure that is new to our facility and quite the stranger to me. The feeling of being stranded on a remote...
