Organizing medical staff members into specialty-based departments may make sense for large organizations. But for smaller hospitals, service lines...Read More »
Last month, Rosemary Dragon, CPMSM, CPCS, medical staff coordinator of OrthoColorado Hospital/St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado, shared...Read More »
Hospitals should allow advanced practice professionals (APP) the right to dispute any action that revokes, suspends, terminates, restricts, or...Read More »
All too often, time-strapped physician leaders are not provided with targeted training before taking up the mantle of medical staff governance. ...Read More »
Failure to hold the medical staff accountable for unprofessional behavior may have catastrophic consequences for patients. On July 9, 2008, The...Read More »
Do you remember the movie Groundhog Day? That's what it felt like to attend 15 medical staff department meetings a month, listening to the same...Read More »
Concurrent or overlapping surgery is not new; however, there are relatively few regulations or policy statements from regulatory agencies or...Read More »