National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week, which kicks off this Sunday, presents an opportunity to elevate understanding of MSPs and to attract high-performing talent to the profession, says Raechel Rowland, RN, LSSGB, medical staff quality specialist at Ascension Borgess...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 10
A growing number of physicians are working well beyond the traditional retirement age, leading health systems to create policies to test the physical, cognitive, and clinical skills of its surgeons. In 2014, there were nearly 100,000 physicians in their 70s still practicing, up 2% from 2012,...
In most cases, it is useful but not required to have a specialty-to-specialty match. There are many observations regarding clinical practice that doctors from a wide range of specialties can accurately make. Did the observed practitioner exhibit adequate history and physical skills, compose a...
Q: Are employed physicians who have been granted privileges subject to the organized medical staff’s clinical case review portion of the ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) policy and all its attendant protections?
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Today’s free resource is a sample reappointment OPPE scorecard courtesy of Beebe Healthcare, a nonprofit community hospital in Lewes, Delaware, that upholds professional practice evaluation as one landmark in the greater quality landscape.
