A California Court of Appeals for Division Seven of the Second Appellate District reversed and remanded with directions a trial court’s decision, finding that the terms of an agreement between a physician and hospital cannot be enforced when they conflict with a state-mandated procedure.
Granting a practitioner a leadership title does not make him or her a leader. However, an individual who is selected or elected to be a department chairperson, medical staff officer, or committee chair is expected to provide significant leadership. But leadership entails more than chairing a...
The Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) team is going to the NAMSS Conference! Stop by Booth 213 to peruse the latest and greatest HCPro medical staff and credentialing resources, earn an exclusive discount, and enter our numerous raffles! See you there!
Unsurprisingly, integrating medical staffs across multiple hospitals in a system has numerous effects on the culture within each individual medical staff, although these effects tend to be overwhelmingly positive. When medical staffs are unified correctly, each staff can still maintain its local...
Medical staff officers have the responsibility to govern and oversee the administrative functions of the medical staff. In the past, the office of medical staff president or chief of staff was an honorary position that required little work—truth be told, most of that work was actually done by...
All acute-care hospitals should have policies regarding conflicts of interests. Make certain that every person covered by your facility's conflicts of interests policy submits in writing to the chief executive officer a Conflict of Interest Disclosure Statement listing all financial and/or...
