While ultimately both parties need to make an effort in order to maintain the relationship, there are different ways each side can contribute. One way the medical staff services department (MSSD) can do their part is by finding ways to effectively communicate information to...

Whether at your local hospital site or through interactions with network corporate sites, you will have contact with MSPs. The following list of dos and don’ts when working with MSPs and the medical staff services department (MSSD) might be helpful to you as a medical staff leader:

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NCQA requires that the health plan’s policies and procedures address how it stores, modifies and secures its credentialing information. In addition to the confidentiality requirements under its...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations were quickly forced to have employees work from home, and they had to scramble to create remote work guidelines and support models.
A remote work model requires policies and guidelines for staff and leaders so expectations can be...

Significant changes have been made in several areas for ACOs preparing to enter Pathways to Success tracks.

    Use this sample bylaws language supplied by CRC board member William K. Cors, MD, MMM, FAAPL, to help you develop guidance for granting temporary, emergency, and disaster privileges. For a second set of sample bylaws on this subject, click ...

    Telemedicine is a rapidly expanding activity, and more hospitals are making use of telemedicine resources. The regulatory and accreditation standards for the privileging of telemedicine practitioners have been in flux over the past decade. Some of this flux has been caused by the changing...

    Use this sample bylaws language from Lehigh Valley Hospital to help you develop guidance for temporary, emergency, and disaster privileges. 

    Disaster privileges are implemented during disaster situations, such as the aftermath of a hurricane or a pandemic. However, accreditation standards vary regarding the use of disaster privileges. Use this grid to ensure you are complying with your accreditor(s)' standards. 

    Emergency privileges mean that any practitioner with clinical privileges is permitted to provide any type of patient care, treatment, and services that is intended to be lifesaving in nature or prevent serious harm (regardless of medical staff status or clinical privilege) as long as the patient...

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