Increasingly, organizations are implementing policies for evaluating older members of the medical staff—often for practitioners at age 70, or...Read More »
Privileges are permissions that have been granted to a physician or other licensed independent practitioner to provide specific patient care...Read More »
The past few years have seen an extraordinary rise in telehealth services as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift toward virtual care. With...Read More »
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 »
