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To carry out board-delegated responsibilities, an effective medical staff needs to control the quality of care rendered by medical staff members and other practitioners granted clinical privileges and to provide a structure whereby physicians have input in the institution’s decision-making....
Collegial intervention is an administrative attempt to resolve issues informally, rather than go down the road of formal corrective action, which is difficult for all involved, says Sarah Coyne, partner at Quarles & Brady LLP.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 4
One-fourth of America’s practicing physicians are age 65 or older, and this proportion will continue to rise as the peak of the baby boomer generation enters the ranks of the elderly. According to the AMA, more than 40% of the nation’s 1 million doctors are older than 50. These are daunting...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 28, Issue 4
The corrective action, summary suspension, and fair hearing processes are high-stakes proceedings and extremely stressful for all involved. Hospitals can alleviate some of this stress by ensuring their medical staff bylaws do not create extra pressure points when managing practitioner behavior...
One of the ways that we’ve gotten the other clinical departments to be involved is if they’ve had challenges with newly oriented providers. We started by speaking with the leadership from those departments, to first create a dialogue about what we were trying to accomplish with the orientation....
