Medical Staff Articles by Topic: Medical Staff Leadership
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Whether the funds come from the medical staff, hospital administration, or both, one of the best...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
There is no time like an economic downturn to get people thinking about how to do more with less...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
If bending over backward hasn’t always been part of the physician recruitment process, it...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Medical Staff Briefing is a monthly newsletter for medical staff leaders and medical staff services...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, November 18, 2009
Don’t forget to check your mailbox (electronic or otherwise) to get the latest medical staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, November 18, 2009
Whether you’re responsible for coordinating the peer review committee or perform...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, November 18, 2009
In some academic medical centers, the chair of the medical staff department also serves as the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, November 18, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, November 11, 2009
If you didn’t get a chance to attend The Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium in Naples...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, November 11, 2009
One of the best ways to ensure that the MEC is living up to the medical staff’s and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, November 11, 2009
Because so much work goes into training new committee members, keep existing members as long as...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, November 11, 2009
One of the most difficult challenges facing medical staff leaders is overseeing professional...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, November 11, 2009
Last week, we asked readers whether their organizations had a disruptive/impaired physician policy...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, November 11, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 4, 2009
As editor of Medical Staff Briefing and Medical Staff Leader Connection, I write frequently about...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 4, 2009
HCPro wants to hear from you! Every month, we post a new interactive poll question on our Web site...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 4, 2009
Physicians have reviewed case charts from their first days of medical school, but they are rarely...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 4, 2009
When determining what data to collect to evaluate physician competence, it is critical that the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 4, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
With the release of Sentinel Event Alert #43, The Joint Commission is driving home a message that...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
When medical staff members and the hospital administrative team are pitted against each other, MSPs...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Medical staffs need to take the initiative to provide current and future leaders with the tools and...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Medical Staff Briefing acts as a support system by providing time-saving tools, expert advice, and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, October 28, 2009
It’s no secret that physicians are increasingly disengaged from hospital happenings, and that...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, October 28, 2009
MSPs often struggle to receive information—including elements of medical staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, October 28, 2009
Each hospital must determine how far back to verify applicant’s healthcare-related...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, October 28, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, October 21, 2009
Dear readers,
Don’t miss out on your opportunity to participate in The Greeley Medical Staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, October 21, 2009
In most organizations, the hospital or parent institution incurs the cost of focused professional...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, October 21, 2009
Correct job descriptions are critical, not only to set appropriate expectations for the hospitalist...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, October 21, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 14, 2009
If your medical staff office’s existing credentialing software helps you create and generate...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 14, 2009
A common mistake many medical staff services departments (MSSD) make is to combine a...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 14, 2009
Meetings almost always include action items that call for group decision-making. Some action items...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 14, 2009
Don’t forget to check your mailbox (electronic or otherwise) to get the latest medical staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 14, 2009
A recent poll on HCPro.com reveals that more hospitals conduct centralized peer review compared to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 14, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 7, 2009
Physician executive compensation rose by an average of 12%, according to 2009 Physician Executive...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 7, 2009
It is more important than ever to create an effective method of capturing performance data that...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 7, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Your facility may need to rethink its joint ventures before October 1. That’s the date the...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
If you read news reports of the troubled brachytherapy program at the Philadelphia VA Medical...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
vThe standard formerly known as MS.1.20 is on the move again
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Inside:
What docs need to know about restrictive clauses
Joint Commission task force inches...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, September 30, 2009
Dear readers,
Don’t miss out on your opportunity to participate in The Greeley medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, September 30, 2009
According to a study in the Sept. 23/30 issue of JAMA, fatigue isn’t the only factor that...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, September 30, 2009
As an MSP, you likely present to a wide range of individuals: medical staff members, committee and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, September 30, 2009
Perception data differ from clinical data in that it is based on how others view our performance in...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, September 30, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, September 23, 2009
A new study in Archives of Surgery suggest that hospitals do not consistently require physicians to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, September 23, 2009
At the age of 65, practitioners shall complete an annual examination that addresses their physical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, September 23, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 38, September 16, 2009
The Joint Commission (formerly JACHO) last week announced the launch of the Center for Transforming...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 38, September 16, 2009
For many years, the standard method of privileging was referred to as “the laundry...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 38, September 16, 2009
Having trouble gathering enough competency data on physicians who rarely darken your...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 38, September 16, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 9, 2009
Have you entered this month’s contest for two free seats at the Greeley Medical Staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 9, 2009
Effective leadership can prevent medical errors, says The Joint Commission in an Aug. 27 Sentinel...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 9, 2009
One approach to providing adequate emergency department (ED) call coverage is to require each...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 9, 2009
The CEO, acting for the board and after considering the recommendations of the president of the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 9, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 2, 2009
Legislators are considering making peer review laws uniform throughout the state rather than...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 2, 2009
Encourage new leaders to experiment with short-term roles, such as committee membership or task...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 2, 2009
Putting together a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ) is a useful change management strategy...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 2, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Inside:
Five steps to crafting foolproof contracts with independent groups
What your medical...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
As physicians increasingly opt to work for independent companies that contract with hospitals to...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
DNV survey activities are not very different than those of The Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Culture is extraordinarily powerful and has the potential to either fuel or undermine your...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 35, August 19, 2009
The pool of former medical staff leaders represents a wealth of talent and experience that should...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 35, August 19, 2009
Physician executives have long had a role in hospital management. During the 1980s and 1990s, with...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 35, August 19, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 34, August 19, 2009
In addition to the Stark and anti-kickback rules that already govern physicians&rsquo...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 34, August 19, 2009
Most medical staffs have traditionally allowed any member to suggest or submit a proposed bylaws...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 34, August 19, 2009
When preparing for medical staff or committee meetings, the first form you should consider...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 34, August 19, 2009
A quick poll on HCPro.com reveals that of 28 respondents, 56% report having three or more employees...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 34, August 19, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 33, August 12, 2009
Have you entered this month’s contest for two free seats at the Greeley Medical Staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 33, August 12, 2009
Although safety net hospitals (those with the highest percentage of disproportionate share...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 33, August 12, 2009
To begin conducting a staffing analysis, download this free staffing analysis tool from...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 33, August 12, 2009
Consider requiring your medical staff leaders to possess the following qualifications and qualities.
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 33, August 12, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 32, August 5, 2009
Although the healthcare community is trying to reduce the number of admissions to cut down on...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 32, August 5, 2009
If you have a problematic doctor on staff who requires an intervention, don’t approach him or...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 32, August 5, 2009
If your medical staff office’s existing credentialing software helps you create and generate...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 32, August 5, 2009
The associate category is a non-voting category. It usually consists of new appointees to the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 32, August 5, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Although increased medical school enrollment will help meet future healthcare needs, several...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
You’ve been in the meeting at which the physicians who’ve been on the medical staff...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
The good old days when physicians could take a tax-deductible vacation disguised as continuing...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
The Association of American Medical Colleges has recommended a 30% increase in total medical school...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
This issue of Medical Staff Briefing and Hospitalist Leadership Advisor includes special reports on...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 31, July 29, 2009
If your medical staff services department’s existing credentialing software helps you create...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 31, July 29, 2009
Wisconsin’s supreme court ruled that William Brusky, MD, failed to inform a patient who he...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 31, July 29, 2009
The Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium provides best practices and tools from leading...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 31, July 29, 2009
Joint Commission standards require that organizations have plans for evaluating the competency of...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 31, July 29, 2009
Medical staffs seldom have a policy in place to guide the re-entry process for physicians who have...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 31, July 29, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 30, July 22, 2009
Medversant Technologies LLC is taking Morrisey Associates to court over what they see as a patent...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 30, July 22, 2009
An ED on-call solution that balances physician, hospital, and community needs? Yes, it is possible...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 30, July 22, 2009
Credentials committees often overanalyze credentialing and privileging decisions regarding low- and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 30, July 22, 2009
Information regarding physician reentry related to program availability, program structure, and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 30, July 22, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 29, July 21, 2009
There’s still time to enter this month’s contest for two free seats at the Greeley...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 15, 2009
Once again, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has granted The Joint Commission...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 15, 2009
We know budgets are tight, so in an effort to make the upcoming Greeley Medical Staff Institute...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 15, 2009
The Health Care Quality Improvement Act allows the use of non-physicians on a hearing panel...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 15, 2009
Vast pay discrepancies for medical directorships exist depending on specialty, region, and type of...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 15, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 8, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 8, 2009
The Supreme Court of Georgia in June ruled that plaintiffs who bring negligent credentialing...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 8, 2009
No, unless otherwise required by state law, says Claude (Bud) Pate, REHS, vice president of content...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 8, 2009
Under the apparent agency theory, a patient can sue a hospital for the negligence of a physician if...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 8, 2009
HCPro and The Greeley Company have teamed up to create the Greeley Medical Staff Institute...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Given a lack of economic alignment, shrinking or flat reimbursement, and the emergence of new...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Measuring the competence of advanced practice professionals, such as nurse practitioners and...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Although many physicians consider the orientation process unnecessary, it can help make the...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Nurses provide care to patients. Radiologists read and interpret x-rays. Hospital CEOs ensure a...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Even if your hospital is in a safe haven out of the path of hurricanes and tornados, you should...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
In this issue of Medical Staff Briefing, learn how to get the ball rolling on an emergency...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 27, July 1, 2009
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recently published online its 2008 State...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 27, July 1, 2009
There are few opportunities for physician leaders to come together, share ideas, and learn from...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 27, July 1, 2009
Try a PowerPoint presentation with a little kick, says Dana Crowell, CPMSM, director of medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 27, July 1, 2009
You’ve designed a physician reporting mechanism and are getting ready to distribute your...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 27, July 1, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, June 24, 2009
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston is launching a one-year Open Notes campaign, which...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, June 24, 2009
A key part to any credentialing application is the attestation, acknowledgement, and release forms...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, June 24, 2009
Comparing information that physicians have submitted in the past with current disclosures is one...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, June 24, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
In the June 4 issue of MS Leader Connection, we reported that hospitals aren’t reporting to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
During disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, and tornados, your staff may be so pumped up on...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
If your organization requires documentation of TB or other immunizations, the medical staff should...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
Physicians in Mesa County, IA may have the healthcare reform solution we’ve all been looking...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
EMTALA is an unfunded federal mandate that requires hospitals to provide ED on-call services...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
By having your medical staff members fill out a conflict of interest disclosure form every year...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
With physicians working longer hours and also devoting more time for family, they don’t have...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
The results of our 2009 MSP Salary Survey are in! Use the data we’ve collecting to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
Hospitals are not reporting practitioners to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) as often as...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
Wondering whether your facility should pursue a joint venture with several local physicians...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
Locum tenens is a Latin term for “placeholder” and is not a term that The Joint...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
When physicians are given feedback data regarding outcomes, a common response is “My outcomes...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
I recently attended a peer review committee meeting, during which I learned that the quality...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Hospitals that provide communication training to board members, administrators, and medical staff...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Because MSPs manage the nitty-gritty medical staff services department details, they are often the...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
How familial relationships work in real life, especially with conflict of interest on the top of...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
A report published in the February Pediatrics, reveals that only 34% of state licensing boards...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
In this issue of MSB, you’ll learn about the state of medical licensure, how to train medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 21, May 27, 2009
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has recently announced...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 21, May 27, 2009
They could, depending on how your bylaws are constructed. First, it’s important to understand...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 21, May 27, 2009
If your medical staff wants the option of granting physicians membership without privileges, its...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 21, May 27, 2009
Many organizations have asked me what other organizations are trying, and more importantly...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 20, 2009
It seems a given that any physician needs a license to practice in each state in which he or sees...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 20, 2009
We understand that budgets are tight, so we've dropped the price from $269 to $199!! I hope you can...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 20, 2009
As organizations consider redesigning their processes and allow advanced practice professionals...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 20, 2009
I don’t know that there’s a number that would take care of each and every concern that...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 20, 2009
Communicating reference information about physicians has always been a challenge for medical staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
A number of factors are driving physicians to focus less on practicing in the hospital and more on...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
Temporary privileges may be granted for up to 120 calendar days when a practitioner applying for...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
For privilege delineations, it is important to ensure that all procedures listed on the delineation...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
A recent California Supreme Court ruling limits the role of the hearing officer after a...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
When reviewing bylaws, I often see confusion regarding emergency and disaster privileges. Many...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 6, 2009
What do fed-up ED on-call surgeons, disgruntled specialists, and a frustrated CEO all have in...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 6, 2009
Group purchasing organizations (GPO) have the potential to save the United States health care...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 6, 2009
When recruiting a physician to a particular specialty, a variety of physician compensation data...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 6, 2009
The most practical approach is to distribute feedback reports every six months. This provides...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 6, 2009
Some of the most dramatic movie scenes involve a jury deliberating the fate of a defendant. In...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Communication especially in this 24/7 age of instantaneous news must be timely, accurate, and...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
You've volunteered or been elected to take on a medical staff leadership role. So now what? In...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
In most cases, 360-degree evaluations are used to assess residents, but they can be easily adapted...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Many leaders are thrown into positions with little notion of what the hospital expects of them or...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Learn the nuances of determining physician compensation, why 360-degree evaluations aren?t just for...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 29, 2009
State agencies that license and discipline doctors in California and Florida are among those with...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 29, 2009
There may be times when you might want a more in-depth scrutiny of a physician’s...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 29, 2009
Meeting minutes must be recorded accurately because when everyone leaves at the end of the meeting...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 29, 2009
Health care is becoming an increasingly data driven and quality driven industry. Those of us...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 29, 2009
Medical staff leaders are often daunted at the prospect of engaging and paying outside peer...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 16, April 22, 2009
A cardiologist is suing the Jewish Hospital in Louisville, KY for allegedly terminating his medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 16, April 22, 2009
When attempting to determine whether to grant a physician’s request for new-technology...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 16, April 22, 2009
Medical staff and hospital leaders need to communicate with multiple stakeholders: The medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 16, April 22, 2009
I was a good physician and was sure I could easily find “clean” records to demonstrate...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 15, April 15, 2009
Accreditation professionals across the country have known for months that revisions to Joint...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 15, April 15, 2009
If you’re struggling to create a mechanism to ensure that your organization’s...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 15, April 15, 2009
Many of you wonder what CMS and The Joint Commission are really looking for when it comes to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 15, April 15, 2009
Fram, an after-market automotive parts manufacturer, once made a car care commercial that made this...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
Clinical observers are a category of practitioners that organizations tend to overlook. It is...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
A hospital should never make an improper report to the National Practitioner Data Bank...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
The words you choose can make the difference between well-written bylaws that protect the medical...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Most medical staff bylaws include a clause that requires medical staff leaders to attend a minimum...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
In this issue of MSB, we discover how organizational ombudsmen can help hospitals comply with Joint...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, April 1, 2009
In March, The Joint Commission and CMS slashed the number of new and revised requirements, which...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, April 1, 2009
In a March 24 Open Letter to Health Care Providers, the Office of Inspector General conveys its...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, April 1, 2009
The SBAR tool, developed by Dr. M. Leonard and colleagues, has proven to be an effective...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 12, March 25, 2009
Your medical staff should have a policy that places the burden on the applicant to prove his or her...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 12, March 25, 2009
Medical staff voting methods are changing due to electronic ballots and no-action-required votes.
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 11, March 18, 2009
Do you get confused between a sanction and probation? Reprimand and warning? Greeley expert...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 10, March 10, 2009
Several readers responded to last week's "Tip of the week" wondering where they could...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 10, March 10, 2009
If your hospital's risk management department defers cases to the medical staff peer review...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 9, March 3, 2009
Medical staffs have traditionally placed H&P requirement language in their rules and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 9, March 3, 2009
According to a quick poll conducted on www.hcpro.com, 76% of respondents indicate that their...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 9, March 3, 2009
Budgets are tight, but that doesn’t mean your Doctor’s Day celebration should be...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 8, February 25, 2009
Time is money, and these days no one can afford either commodity. That’s why HCPro, Inc. has...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 8, February 25, 2009
Strong, but not dictatorial leadership is a key to encouraging open discussion and participation...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 8, February 25, 2009
The pyramid model illustrates that if you build the foundation layers of the medical staff well...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 11, 2009
Please help HCPro provide you with important information you need by taking a moment to share...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 11, 2009
Every time you make a decision to delegate and involve staff, you free up time to focus on other...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 11, 2009
When defining indicators to measure physician competence, medical staffs have stumbled on the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 11, 2009
It’s a new year, which means you have new medical staff leaders on your team. We can’t...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 6, February 10, 2009
Organizing this extracurricular activity can be very time consuming, but you can streamline your...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
Whether a decision is considered a "restriction" is sometimes in the eye of the beholder...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
This five-part series, authored by Jonathan Burroughs, MD, MBA, CMSL, senior consultant with The...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
Under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act, if a physician requests a hearing, he or she must be...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
Theresa J. Rambosek, a healthcare attorney with Seattle-based Bennett, Bigelow & Leedom shares...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 14, 2009
It’s a new year, which means you have new medical staff leaders on your team. We can’t...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 14, 2009
In 2007, The Joint Commission gave hospital medical staffs a gift: a framework to measure quality...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 1, January 7, 2009
It is often most practical for the medical executive committee to assign the duty of...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
As of January 1, 2009, The Joint Commission will require hospitals to develop a formal process for...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
Bylaws
Hospitals still waiting for verdict on MS.1.20. March, p. 6.
Joint Commission stands...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 48, December 17, 2008
Having a physician leader who can bring physicians together for a common cause is the key to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, December 10, 2008
For a long time, people thought there were only two leadership styles: autocratic and democratic...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, December 10, 2008
Robert Marder, MD, CMSL, vice president of The Greeley Company, shares why M&M conferences are...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, December 3, 2008
The revenue cycle is a mysterious and complex process that seems disconnected from the primary...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
According to The Joint Commission, communication breakdowns are the most common cause of medical...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
It seems as if every time you pick up the newspaper, another hospital is under fire for negligent...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
Getting the Stark Law and federal anti-kickback statute confused is easy—both are intended to...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
It’s that time of year again. When all the holiday celebrations are over and the ball has...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 19, 2008
Various economic and political factors are creating drastic changes to the healthcare environment...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 19, 2008
Mary Hoppa, MD, MBA, CMSL, discusses the importance of updating medical staff documents, including...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, November 5, 2008
Every once in a while, I read a book that has concise “pearls” that I find both...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
Hospitals are increasingly paring down their medical staff categories to make life a little easier...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
A physician yells at a nurse and throws a chart on the floor. The outburst causes a stir, but in...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
If the Florida Supreme Court’s March decision to make all physician peer review information...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 29, 2008
Jon Burroughs, MD, MBA, CMSL, a senior consultant at The Greeley Company, says that thoughtful...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 22, 2008
Summary suspensions, automatic suspensions, precautionary suspensions—over the next few...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 22, 2008
Wondering what—exactly—is the definition of a good leader? Here is a list leaders in...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 22, 2008
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the National Association of Medical Staff Services...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, October 10, 2008
When saying thank you to physicians on your staff, it is important they know what they are being...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, October 10, 2008
The most common form of compensation for on-call service is a stipend. Although the approach...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 10, 2008
We all know that disruptive physician behavior creates a hostile work environment, but now there's...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, October 8, 2008
It is important to have a crystal-clear definition of “investigation” in your bylaws...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, October 8, 2008
Robert Marder, MD, CMSL, vice president of The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. in...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, October 1, 2008
Yes. Your organization’s policies should clearly outline the time frame by which it must act...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, October 1, 2008
Rather than requiring only particular staff categories to take such call, many medical staffs are...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, October 1, 2008
This is the conclusion to our seven-part series on the five dynamic tensions of contemporary...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 38, September 24, 2008
Is stating your organization’s name on the coversheet of your bylaws enough? Our Greeley...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 17, 2008
Under an intended practice plan model, part of the application process involves asking physicians...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 10, 2008
Assuming a leadership position has its burdens, as anyone involved heavily in medical staff affairs...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 35, September 3, 2008
Some hospital CEOs have hand-picked a group of physicians to form their own "kitchen...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 35, September 3, 2008
When an individual in your organization submits a complaint about a physician, the physician may...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 35, September 3, 2008
Mark your calendars! This series on the five dynamic tensions of the medical staff by William K...