This month in MSB
Medical Staff Leader Connection, October 14, 2009
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Don’t forget to check your mailbox (electronic or otherwise) to get the latest medical staff news. Here’s what you’ll find in the November issue of Medical Staff Briefing:
1. Tips for a successful medical staff leadership retreat. Medical staffs need to take the initiative to provide current and future leaders with the tools and skills they need to manage today’s complex healthcare issues.
2. MSPs: Are you getting pulled in two directions? MSB finds out some best practices to help MSPs maintain neutrality during medical staff-administrative conflicts.
3. Read what Greeley experts had to say about ED call issues during a recent Web cast, “ED On-Call Tools and Techniques: Practical steps to an equitable and sustainable solution.”
4. The Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert #43 urges medical staff and hospital leaders to take a proactive role in patient safety initiatives, but what does that mean for your medical staff leaders?
5. William K. Cors, MD, MMM, FACPE, CMSL, kicks off a new series for MSB that finds solutions to current healthcare challenges through new medical staff models. This month, he covers bundled payments.
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