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 »
The 2023 MSP Salary Survey Report sheds light on urgent focuses, burgeoning functions, and emerging markets identified by medical staff movers and shakers who keep their finger on the industry’s pulse. By using the trends detailed in this report to enrich their professional...
Bylaws should be carefully written to ensure that they can’t be changed casually, but also that amendments don’t face an unreasonable hurdle. This...Read More »
