A healthcare organization’s culture is what drives behavior, which in turn drives outcomes. If the organization as a whole has embraced a culture that encourages adverse-event reporting without punitive consequences, while at the same time requiring the assumption of responsibility when an...
Performance evaluations for medical staff leaders do not have to be lengthy or intimidating. The evaluator should assess whether the leader successfully achieves the following.
The process of a hearing following the medical executive committee’s (MEC) recommendation is an important right that must be spelled out in the bylaws. The hearing process will be explored in depth in four separate installments. This month, we will examine the initiation and notice of a fair...
Does your organized medical staff structure help or hinder the strategic development and mutual success of physicians and the hospital? A comprehensive medical staff development plan is incomplete without an analysis of the effectiveness of your medical staff structure and processes. The...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 9
As 2020 launched, healthcare executives had no way of knowing the havoc a novel virus that had emerged in Wuhan, China, would wreak on the healthcare industry. By March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization acknowledged a pandemic was in progress, and COVID-19 began impacting the U.S....