One of the most important roles of a hospital’s organized medical staff is to evaluate practitioners’ credentials and make recommendations to the...Read More »
This series has emphasized time and again the need to be as clear as possible within each part of the fair hearing and due process section of your...Read More »
One of the first steps in keeping disruptive behavior out of your organization is to only appoint excellent physicians. The best predictor of...Read More »
The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) enumerates components to ensure procedural fairness. The first principle of fairness...Read More »
Physicians may claim that the data used to carry out peer review is invalid. This is a claim that many medical staff leaders have heard. It is...Read More »
According to CMS, a hospital, “must have an effective governing body legally responsible for the conduct of the hospital as an institution. If a...Read More »
When addressing disruptive physician behavior, organizations must understand an often confusing phrase: zero tolerance. Many medical staffs are...Read More »
In this 90-minute webinar, physician Jonathan Goldner, DO, MMM, FCCP, FCCM, discussed the latest developments in the conundrum of how to cope with aging providers and provided tips for developing an aging practitioner policy at your organization. Attendees learned how aging affects both medical...