In May, the Biden-Harris administration announced the end of COVID-19 vaccination requirements for CMS-certified facilities, which had been...Read More »
CMS has officially retired the requirements for healthcare staff vaccination against COVID-19 and has told surveyors to no longer review its...Read More »
Establish an incident response team to handle decisions about high-risk pregnancy cases that may present dilemmas in your hospital’s emergency...Read More »
This policy provides for the confidentiality of records maintained by the Hospital medical staff and medical staff office (MSO). This includes the minutes of all medical staff committees and all correspondence between medical staff leaders and medical staff personnel and individual members of...
This is the latest in a continuing series of articles designed for medical staff leaders and their associates. This month, Greeley and Williams...Read More »
Last December, The Joint Commission (TJC) announced it would be eliminating the term “licensed independent practitioner” (LIP) from its standards...Read More »
Last week we talked about the actions that should trigger the fair hearing and appeal due process. This week, let's talk about and clearly state...Read More »
The Joint Commission’s move to extend the reappointment period for medical providers from two years to every three years has been met with a...Read More »
Your medical staff bylaws must specifically state the exact details as to when, by whom, and how a fair hearing is triggered at the medical staff...Read More »
To avoid compromising the integrity of credentials files, the files should be properly secured and retained for an appropriate length of time.Read More »
