Practitioners have demanding schedules and do not have time to decipher encrypted messages. Medical staff leaders and MSPs should mitigate the risk of practitioners ignoring ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) reports by producing reports that engage their interest...
There are two potential means to reduce the potential negative impact of a credentialing decision. First, for employed physicians, a hospital may consider including specific contractual remedies in employment contracts with physicians who allege some type of...
The best of hospital leadership take an active interest and role in safety and quality at their facility, an attitude that can help quality improvement departments, accreditation coordinators, and others who live and breathe process improvement institute the changes necessary to...
My first consulting assignment involved a surgeon on a small medical staff with chronic depression. He would experience meltdowns in the middle of the night when nurses attempted to rouse him from a fitful sleep. On two occasions he slammed down the phone after being asked to...
Radiologist Richard Chesbrough, MD, entered into a contract with Visiting Physicians Association (VPA) to interpret images created by VPA's technologists during in-home visits.
When you attend conferences focused on medical staff services issues, you may come home eager to implement a new strategy or update a form, but because of the information overload, your efforts may come screeching to a halt. As you try to remember what a speaker said about peer...
