The importance of medical staff bylaws should compel every hospital and its medical staff leaders to ensure that bylaws are adequate, accurate, and in compliance with applicable requirements. A...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 9
The updated National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Guidebook was published in April 2015. The revised edition expanded parameters for reporting medical staff activities and most notably required MSPs to reexamine guidelines regarding investigations and reporting obligations.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 8
As medical staff professionals, we never seem to run out of challenges—or, as the optimists among us may call them, “opportunities.” Some of these issues are simple, and others are less so. Our work is not always predictable. We deal with a variety of people and needs, sometimes under strange...
There are going to be trade-offs with any age thresholds that are set — start too early and do lots of testing that turns out to be unnecessary, start too late and miss some physicians whose competence has declined — but we can't let this difficulty keep us from moving forward.
If your organization is struggling to get physicians to take ED call, you are not alone.
“In the last 3 years, Greeley has worked with 700-plus hospitals and healthcare systems all around the country, all sizes and complexities. The most challenging, difficult project we ever work on is...
“The difficulty with local peer review is that there is the possibility that a group of young surgeons may have an incentive to declare an older surgeon is no longer capable. While I personally feel this is unlikely, the potential is a real concern for older surgeons.”
