A key element that bylaws should address is the rights and due process that are to be afforded to medical staff members. This section could begin with a statement of member rights followed by an outline of initial collegial intervention and a progressive description of next steps when current...
Member rights is a logical starting point for the bylaws. The most fundamental rights accorded members of the medical staff relate to the due...Read More »
The U.S. health care system is famously resistant to government-imposed change. It took decades to create Medicare and Medicaid, mostly due to...Read More »
When interviewing new applicants, it is often useful to use a structured interview form. This form should be modified to reflect the issues that are important to your hospital.
This allows the people conducting the interview to do the folloiwng, as well as so much more:
It is sometimes difficult to tell how much work a committee is doing until it summarizes its accomplishments. In many hospitals, the functions of the credentials committee go far beyond the review of new appointees to the medical staff. They include reappointments, review of new requests for...
The credentials committee is perhaps one of the hardest working committees. Most physicians who agree to participate in a credentials committee do...Read More »
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is highlighting the need to reduce regulatory burdens in healthcare, the president of a physician...Read More »
Requests for leaves of absence have become more common in recent years, and it is important for medical staffs to have clear policies regarding...Read More »
The bedrock of the medical staff due process manual is a federal statute named the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA). As with...Read More »
A powerful tool for managing physician performance is the physician performance pyramid that was developed by the late Howard Kirz, MD, at the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. Kirz for many years participated in teaching the “Managing Physician Performance in Organizations” course at the...
