Dear medical staff leader:
Truly effective medical staffs must govern themselves, credential and privilege new practitioners, and monitor the quality of care provided by these practitioners.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 26
Your confidentiality policy should address how MSPs obtain approvals and recommendations. If a department chair or other committee member can't come to the medical staff services office to review the files, do not simply drop the files off, unattended, at their office.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 25
Medical staffs often have several categories and subcategories to describe the status of physicians who practice at a hospital. However, such subdivision is unnecessary. A medical staff should contain just three general categories:
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 25
In last week's edition of this newsletter, I discussed the privileging challenges presented by low- and no-volume providers. As an increasing number of family medicine and internal medicine physicians begin to use hospitalists and spend less time in the hospital...
