Featured blog post: Tips for preparing the medical staff for regulatory surveys
Medical Staff Leader Connection, July 29, 2010
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With the Joint Commission performing unannounced accreditation surveys, organizations must be in a state of continuous readiness. In addition, in recent years, Joint Commission surveyors have focused on the participation of the medical staff during a survey. Below are some tips for medical staff leaders to help them prepare their medical staffs for upcoming surveys:
- Ask each department chief to assign a member of his or her department to serve as the regulatory liaison. Host quarterly liaison meetings and provide the liaisons with regulatory updates, standard changes, policy changes, etc. Charge them with communicating these changes to the rest of the physicians in the department. The liaison also serves as the go-to person for the department whenever a physician has a question regarding regulatory readiness.
To read more of this blog post by Anne Roberts, CPCS, CPMSM, visit MedicalStaffLeader.com.
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