Medical Staff Articles by Topic: Medical Staff Leadership
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 9, 2012
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 2, 2012
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 2, 2012
The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) recently made changes to its Maintenance of...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 2, 2012
At some point during their tenure, physician leaders will be faced with the tough decision of...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 2, 2012
Medical staffs should include a provision in the bylaws stating that if there is a contractual...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 2, 2012
Create strategic solutions to privileging low- and no-volume practitioners with advice from two...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 26, 2012
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 26, 2012
William F. Mills, M.D., MMM, CPE, FAAFP, CMSL, senior vice president of quality and professional...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 26, 2012
Improved understanding and more involvement in care; these are two reasons patients would like...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 19, 2012
This weekly column from The Greeley Company will address current issues in peer review...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 19, 2012
Integrating physicians, compensation, and trust are the three most challenging areas for healthcare...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 19, 2012
Older physician’s assistants (PA) are more likely to work in primary care in a non-urban...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 19, 2012
Although it is tempting to base a hospitalist’s compensation on productivity, doing so can...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 12, 2012
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 2, January 12, 2012
Turning to an electronic medium for credentialing and privileging information comes with a...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 12, 2012
For the first time in seven years, the American College of Physicians (ACP) updated its ethics...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 1, January 5, 2012
In this week’s blog post, William F. Mills, MD, MMM, CPE, FAAFP, CMSL, looks at a recent...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 1, January 5, 2012
Physician burnout does not always come kicking and screaming into the workplace. Disruptive...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 1, January 5, 2012
Ashland (KS) Health Center developed a unique recruiting tool: is offering eight paid weeks off for...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 49, December 29, 2011
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 49, December 29, 2011
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) objects to a proposed Colorado law...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 49, December 29, 2011
At times, medical staff professionals must deal with physicians whose conduct is detrimental to the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 48, December 22, 2011
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 48, December 22, 2011
Are physicians’ salaries affecting the rising cost of healthcare? What are the consequences...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 48, December 22, 2011
When it comes to healthcare reform, physicians are torn on whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 48, December 22, 2011
Physician leaders need to be recognized and rewarded for the work they do as physician leaders...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, December 15, 2011
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 47, December 15, 2011
If a physician runs into an imposing hurdle that causes angry and/or disruptive behavior, deals can...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, December 15, 2011
The quality recruitment of physicians by an organization can be nullified if retention rates...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, December 15, 2011
A recent article in The New York Times raises some of the issues surrounding the use of the...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 1, December 13, 2011
There’s no doubt about it—the healthcare industry needs a makeover. The Centers for...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, December 8, 2011
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, December 8, 2011
At times, administrators or physicians may pressure an MSP to cut corners or overlook certain...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, December 8, 2011
Hospitalists become more popular by the day as hospital administrators look to fill the void left...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, December 8, 2011
Lehigh Valley Hospital’s Interdisciplinary Simulation Center puts medical staff members in...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, December 1, 2011
A progressive approach is to pay medical staff leadership based on the accomplishments of key goals...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, December 1, 2011
Physicians are heading back to school to learn a new skill: cooking healthy meals. In an effort to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, December 1, 2011
Having all documents related to physician performance in one easy-to-find spot may take a lot of...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, November 17, 2011
The stakeholders who select the indicators for the OPPE program should also select the thresholds.
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, November 17, 2011
Palliative care is becoming more popular as patients are able to live longer with serious...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, November 17, 2011
The Joint Commission (TJC) will no longer use the term “disruptive behavior” in its...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, November 10, 2011
Richard Rohr, MD, MMM, FACP, says there is nothing to lose and much to gain from physicians making...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, November 10, 2011
Have you ever stopped to think about how your hospital would operate if the MSSD no longer existed...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, November 10, 2011
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, November 10, 2011
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, November 3, 2011
In 2001, only 3% of graduating residents were interested in hospital employment, according to a...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, November 3, 2011
Rather than using the terms “high” and “low” to describe thresholds...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, November 3, 2011
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 28, 2011
On-time starts and case volume are two popular metrics that help to measure a physician’s...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 27, 2011
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 27, 2011
An article published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine calls attention to the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 27, 2011
To ensure that the credentials committee benefits from interested, experienced, and knowledgeable...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 27, 2011
Read this week’s blog post by William Mills, M.D., MMM, CPE, FAAFP, CMSL, senior vice...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, October 20, 2011
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, October 20, 2011
During the 2009-10 influenza season, 61.9% of healthcare providers received a seasonal influenza...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, October 20, 2011
Physicians often wish to bond with and receive support from other physicians, and the medical staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, October 20, 2011
Adverse actions are a serious matter that requires serious attention. From prevention to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, October 20, 2011
Fifteen years ago, hospitals and physicians began to warm to a revolutionary idea: hospital-based...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, October 13, 2011
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, October 13, 2011
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) will now publicly report whether board...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, October 13, 2011
Years ago, the only choice medical staffs and hospitals had when selecting performance measures...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, October 13, 2011
Adverse actions are a serious matter that require serious attention. From prevention to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 38, October 6, 2011
As hospitals and physicians anticipate a new method of sharing bundled payments from...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 38, October 6, 2011
Policies and procedures should be clear, easy to follow, efficient, and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 38, October 6, 2011
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 38, October 6, 2011
The title of doctor is no longer reserved for physicians, as nurses, physical therapists, and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 29, 2011
The strength of relationships and goodwill that comes from physicians, administrators, and boards...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 29, 2011
One way to involve the medical staff in the regulatory readiness process and ensure that...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 29, 2011
Patients and colleagues that want to file anonymous complaints against a physician don’t...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 29, 2011
With the threat of malpractice lawsuits and focus on performance measures on the rise, physicians...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 22, 2011
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 35, September 15, 2011
In the past ten years, the number of physician assistants has doubled in the United States. A...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 35, September 15, 2011
Many organizations have adopted privilege delineation forms that list procedures and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 34, September 8, 2011
The national dialogue surrounding accountable care organizations seems to include a barrage of...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 34, September 7, 2011
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, September 1, 2011
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, September 1, 2011
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is bypassing rules for how value-based purchasing...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 33, August 25, 2011
Medical staffs might wonder what to do when the number zero shows up on a physician’s ongoing...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 34, August 25, 2011
Smart organizations are changing the way they seek to lead physicians to new ways of practicing...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 32, August 18, 2011
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 11, 2011
There are four main sources of the data: administrative data, clinically documented and coded...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 32, August 11, 2011
The Joint Commission has published its prepublication standards for telemedicine (LD.04.03.09 and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 32, August 11, 2011
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 31, August 4, 2011
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 31, August 4, 2011
Proctors must be on the lookout for signs that indicate whether a physician is competent to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 31, August 3, 2011
Even if you have tried to be objective when choosing a hearing panel, you might not know that Dr. X...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 30, July 28, 2011
The oversight function of the peer review process involves all the actions necessary to oversee the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 30, July 28, 2011
The EMRs bugged him worst of all. Throw in the stress of dealing with patients, procedures, even...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 21, 2011
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 29, July 21, 2011
Hospital administrators, medical staff leaders and patients are three key ingredients to improving...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 14, 2011
Requiring a simple majority (50% plus one), two-thirds, or three-quarters affirmative vote are...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 14, 2011
Restructuring means eliminating activities that impede efficiency. It offers a solution to busy...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 14, 2011
Physician alignment and incentive challenges could prove to be a major hurdle for healthcare...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 27, July 7, 2011
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 7, July 7, 2011
Every state has laws that affect the corrective action section of the medical staff bylaws. These...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 27, July 7, 2011
Prescribing mistakes are still as prevalent in some outpatient electronic prescribing systems as...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, June 30, 2011
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 30, 2011
When should physicians and patients become friends on Facebook? Only if they have a standing...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, June 30, 2011
The physician shortage in the US and the rising cost of operating a practice is prompting more...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, June 30, 2011
Staff at hospitals that choose active surveillance and patient isolation to prevent bug...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 26, June 29, 2011
Although the ACGME’s new Common Program Requirements will cut shift lengths for first year...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 26, June 29, 2011
Staff at hospitals that choose active surveillance and patient isolation to prevent bug...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 26, June 29, 2011
Patients with diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or congestive heart failure who...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 25, June 23, 2011
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 25, June 23, 2011
Connecticut’s Office of Health Care Access (OHCA) has decided that three ophthalmologists do...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 25, June 23, 2011
The National Quality Forum (NQF) Board approved updates to its list of serious reportable events.
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 25, June 23, 2011
At its June meeting, the Texas Medical Board disciplined 92 physicians, including 30 actions...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 25, June 22, 2011
Patients who are better informed about their illnesses are less likely to be readmitted, according...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 25, June 22, 2011
When given the option of pushing a “panic button,” patients are more likely to underuse...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 25, June 22, 2011
The national median annual salary for internal medicine physicians treating adult patients rose...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 24, June 16, 2011
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 16, 2011
Creativity may be the key to helping hospitals survive healthcare reform, budget cuts, and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 24, June 16, 2011
Free-standing emergency departments are on the rise, according to Physician News Digest. The...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 24, June 16, 2011
Five U.S. senators have asked the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 24, June 15, 2011
More hospitals are employing nocturnists to counter “the weekend effect,” a worrisome...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 24, June 15, 2011
When the ACGME released its new Common Program Requirements, many balked at the estimated cost of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 24, June 15, 2011
The best time for physicians to start drafting a discharge plan for diabetic patients is when...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 23, June 9, 2011
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 9, 2011
The Prairie North Health Region in Saskatchewan was cited in a 2011 report for not having adequate...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 23, June 9, 2011
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons questions the benefits of maintenance of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 23, June 8, 2011
A report from the National Blood Clot Alliance indicates that most patients don’t know what...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 23, June 8, 2011
In the June issue of June Journal of the American Colleges of Surgeons, researchers found that...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 23, June 8, 2011
Assigning a nurse as the clinical manager or leader of care and including in-person home visits to...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2011
The Minnesota Board of Medical Practice disciplined former St. Luke’s neurosurgeon, Stefan...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2011
After six years of trying to defend his reputation, Dr. Charles Williams was awarded $8.8 million...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2011
Think that disruptive behavior doesn’t happen at your hospital? Maybe so, but it’s...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 2, 2011
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 22, June 2, 2011
The American Medical Association has developed a manual, The Annotated Model Physician-Hospital...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 2, 2011
The Patient Protection Checklist bill, which requires Nevada hospitals and other medical facilities...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 2, 2011
Forty-four percent of almost 1,800 emergency physicians responding to a poll by the American...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 22, May 31, 2011
The long lists of potential side effects that accompany every drug can cause physicians to feel...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 22, May 31, 2011
Robert M. Wachter, MD, professor and associate chair of the Department of Medicine at the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 22, May 31, 2011
Hospitalists may want to consider a new hobby: writing apps for smartphones. Take William Johnston...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 21, May 26, 2011
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 21, May 26, 2011
The number of emergency departments in metropolitan and suburban areas fell 27 percent between 1990...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 21, May 26, 2011
Education and collaboration are the two words to keep in mind when MSPs work with outside entities...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 21, May 26, 2011
Several physicians share their experiences—including their emotional ups and down—after...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 21, May 25, 2011
Telemedicine may be just what the doctor ordered. The use of eICUs at UMass Memorial Medical Center...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 21, May 25, 2011
Thirty to forty percent of physicians experience burnout during their careers, often related to...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 21, May 25, 2011
Patients who are admitted to the hospital during a weekend are more likely to die than patients who...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 19, 2011
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 20, May 19, 2011
The Society of Hospital Medicine and Press Ganey have together created a tool for measuring...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 19, 2011
Seven percent of physicians use video-conferencing to communicate with patients, and not just about...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 19, 2011
A study in the Archives of Surgery explored whether consistently reminding physicians of the cost...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 19, 2011
HCPro would like to learn more about how MSPs’ positions have evolved over the years. Are you...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 20, May 18, 2011
Eric Howell, MD, SFHM, associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University and director of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 20, May 18, 2011
We all anxiously, and many hopefully, waited and watched as the CMS proposed rules for the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 19, May 12, 2011
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 19, May 12, 2011
For pneumonia, heart attack, and heart failure, adding one family practitioner per 1,000 population...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 19, May 12, 2011
According to the Medical Group Management Association’s Medical Directorship and On-Call...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 19, May 12, 2011
On April 29, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched a new initiative that will...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 19, May 12, 2011
Go beyond the ACO regs furor to uncover commercial and Medicare alternatives for your ACO strategy...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 19, May 11, 2011
Total compensation costs for hospital employees rose 0.5% in the first quarter of 2011, slightly...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 19, May 11, 2011
According to a UPI article, a new emerging specialty is needed to tend to chronically ill...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 19, May 11, 2011
My last two posts have dealt with the analogy between hospitalist program managers and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 5, 2011
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 18, May 5, 2011
Although the majority of academic hospitalists report high levels of job satisfaction, they also...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 5, 2011
Hospitalists have proven to be a boon for private practice physicians—hospitalists allow...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 5, 2011
Hospitals and critical access hospitals that offer services through a telemedicine provider can now...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 28, 2011
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 17, April 28, 2011
The Feres Doctrine protects military medical personnel from medical malpractice lawsuits. The 1950...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 28, 2011
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is reviewing a lower court's decision that found a physician negligent...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 28, 2011
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill on Tuesday that will allow healthcare providers to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 16, April 21, 2011
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 16, April 21, 2011
Hospitals have put in place several auditing processes and safeguard procedures to ensure that...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 16, April 21, 2011
There is yet one more reason to filter your online activity. The Rhode Island Board of Medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 16, April 21, 2011
There are only 21 days left until the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium at Caesar’s...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 15, April 14, 2011
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 15, April 14, 2011
If you’ve seen the TV shows ER, Grey’s Anatomy, or House, you’ve seen just how...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 15, April 14, 2011
The Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Alameda threw out a suit launched...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 15, April 14, 2011
A survey by the Commonwealth Fund found that patients favor policies that encourage...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 7, 2011
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 14, April 7, 2011
Republicans Doc Hastings (R, Wash.) and Sam Johnson (R, Texas) have each proposed a bill to repeal...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 7, 2011
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking comments regarding possible fraud and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 7, 2011
About half of all physicians are employed by a hospitals or an integrated delivery system, but...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 7, 2011
In an upcoming issue of Medical Staff Briefing, we will be reporting on patient safety...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 7, 2011
To bring our customers the content they need in the formats they find most useful, we need your...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, March 31, 2011
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 13, March 31, 2011
An article in the March 23 New England Journal of Medicine suggests that accountable care...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, March 31, 2011
Despite safety protocols and checklists, patient safety still could be at risk. Why? Because nurses...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, March 31, 2011
The way your medical staff goes about developing and enforcing a code of conduct policy can affect...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 12, March 25, 2011
More than half of U.S. physicians whose negligence, malpractice, sexual abuse, fraud, or other...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 12, March 25, 2011
The latest statistics from our Credentialing Resource Center Annual MSP Salary Survey indicates...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 12, March 24, 2011
More than half of U.S. physicians whose negligence, malpractice, sexual abuse, fraud, or other...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 12, March 24, 2011
Ttake advantage of the Credentialing Resource Center Symposium early-bird discount. We've extended...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 12, March 24, 2011
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 12, March 24, 2011
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation re-launched its Innovation Center at...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 12, March 24, 2011
For years, physicians were choosing to practice in specialties rather than family medicine, but the...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 11, March 18, 2011
On Thursday, a bill insulating hospitals from negligent credentialing lawsuits passed in the Idaho...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 11, March 17, 2011
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 11, March 17, 2011
A Center for Studying Health System Change study reveals that ED and primary care physicians are...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 11, March 17, 2011
Recognize that the ACOG’s guidelines are just that: guidelines. They are not mandates, and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 11, March 17, 2011
According to the American Medical Association (AMA) Code of Medical Ethics (Opinion 8.19...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 11, March 17, 2011
The Guam Board of Medical Examiners may soon make available to the public the profiles of...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 10, March 10, 2011
A study in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine reveals that drug overdoses result in $1.4...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 10, March 10, 2011
Henry Ford Health System, Oakwood Healthcare, and Spectrum Health are posting average prices for...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 10, March 10, 2011
For the most part, the physician health committee (PHC) is composed of senior medical staff members...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 10, March 10, 2011
When the medical staff and hospital management negotiate ED call compensation or the overall ED...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 10, March 9, 2011
Republicans may be washing pharmacy and retail store shelves of anti-microbial soaps because of the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 10, March 9, 2011
Mass General is doing penance for losing the protected health information of 192 patients of Mass...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 10, March 9, 2011
In the March 2 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, authors Simon C. Mathews...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 9, March 3, 2011
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 9, March 3, 2011
Tri-City Healthcare (Oceanside, CA) Board of Director Kathleen Sterling has been censured six times...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 9, March 3, 2011
The quality improvement or quality assurance department within a hospital typically organizes and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 9, March 3, 2011
Finding time to teach residents at the bedside is difficult. With new resident duty hour rules...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 9, March 3, 2011
Congratulations to this month’s winner, Karen Vineyard, CPMSM, manager of medical affairs at...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 8, February 24, 2011
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 8, February 24, 2011
In reaction to concerns that accountable care organizations (ACOs) may put private practice...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 8, February 24, 2011
A recent letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association delves into what, exactly...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 8, February 24, 2011
Those first few days and weeks are critical, so it’s important to plan your orientation such...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 8, February 24, 2011
Gainsharing is an approach in which a specific group of physicians does something that creates...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 7, February 17, 2011
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 7, February 17, 2011
Hospitals that are desperate to fill an employment vacancy may overlook red flags and bring in a...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 7, February 17, 2011
As primary care physicians and other specialists spend less time practicing at the hospital in...
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 6, February 11, 2011
Ever wonder how your salary stacks up against other MSPs in the country, or even in your area?
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Credentialing Resource Center Connection, Issue 6, February 11, 2011
California physicians are appealing an October 2010 court ruling in favor of allowing the state to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 10, 2011
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) released its list of most-wanted fugitives on February 3 to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 10, 2011
Next Monday is Valentine’s Day. To get in the spirit, take a few moments to remind yourself...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 10, 2011
If a physician doesn’t have much activity in your hospital but is active at an ambulatory...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 10, 2011
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 10, 2011
For the second consecutive year, Rep. John Sullivan, R-Okla., and Rep. David Scott, D- Ga., are...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 3, 2011
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 3, 2011
To help abate the physician shortage, the American Medical Association (AMA) created guidelines to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 3, 2011
Set ground rules for speakers to make grand rounds more interesting. “The current generation...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 3, 2011
Negligent credentialing cases most often occur when a patient claims that he or she was harmed by a...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 2, February 1, 2011
The physician-hospital relationship is more critical today than ever. A hospital’s best...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 2, February 1, 2011
A physician is no stranger to the fact that healthcare is a team sport. A single physician cannot...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 2, February 1, 2011
We’ve all heard the saying “Great leaders are made, not born.” But how does one...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 2, February 1, 2011
Who needs grand rounds? Physicians can just get the information they need from the Internet, right...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 2, February 1, 2011
Medical Staff Briefing (MSB) provides the strategies and updated information medical staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 27, 2011
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 27, 2011
HCPro released the online medical staff training library that users can use at home or the office...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 27, 2011
Traditionally, physicians received either full privileges or none at all. With the growing...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 4, January 25, 2011
Hospitals responded, reporting that they witnessed a range of health employment programs (e.g...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 20, 2011
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 20, 2011
Locum tenens is a Latin term for “placeholder” and is not used by The Joint Commission...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 20, 2011
The concept behind physician councils is that physicians should have multiple avenues for...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 20, 2011
wasn’t long ago that PAs, NPs, and CRNAs could lose their privileges in a jiffy if the chief...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 13, 2011
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 13, 2011
Sometimes it is not the group that makes a decision in a meeting. Rather, it is a few dominant...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 13, 2011
Unfortunately, as the medical staff shares with physicians data that indicate an opportunity for...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 13, 2011
Clinicians enjoy almost total job security, but management is a different story. Hospitalist...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 1, January 6, 2011
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 1, January 6, 2011
In the February issue of Medical Staff Briefing, Anne Roberts, CPCS, CPMSM, senior director of...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 1, January 6, 2011
Existing practitioners will maintain their current privileges until implementation of the new core...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 52, December 30, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 52, December 30, 2010
A medical leave of absence is a leave granted for health concerns, usually 45 days or longer, that...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 52, December 30, 2010
Due to changing healthcare technologies, increasing specialization, and the growth of individual...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 51, December 23, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 51, December 23, 2010
A nonretaliation policy makes it clear that reporting improper conduct is a duty of all staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 51, December 23, 2010
Why wouldn’t the board want individuals who are experts in their respective fields to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 51, December 23, 2010
When reviewing a physician’s ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) profile, do you...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 50, December 16, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 50, December 16, 2010
If a physician is being proctored because of a potential competence issue, it is important for the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 50, December 16, 2010
Hospitals should have a policy that clearly describes the circumstances under which it would seek...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 50, December 16, 2010
In the January 2011 issue of Medical Staff Briefing, we discuss five tips for being a good...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 49, December 9, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 49, December 9, 2010
Sometimes the most difficult thing to accomplish at work is work. With telephone calls, meetings...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 49, December 9, 2010
PROMETHEUS is a provider payment model that is designed to pay providers, including physicians and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 49, December 9, 2010
The Republicans are back in control of Congress. With a majority in the House, they have the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 49, December 9, 2010
HCPro is proud to announce that we have moved from our long-time headquarters in Marblehead, MA to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, December 2, 2010
Almost every state has an association of medical staff services that, along with the National...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, December 2, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, December 2, 2010
In an ideal world, the only people who know the reason for a physician’s leave of absence are...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, December 2, 2010
If a group of physicians approached your hospital about doing an underarrangement, the hospital...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2010
If your hospital had its own baseball league, would hospitalists and referring practitioners play...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2010
Medical Staff Briefing (MSB) provides the strategies and updated information medical staff leaders...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, November 18, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, November 18, 2010
Depression can be a stand-alone impairment or it can be linked with burnout. The overall physician...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, November 18, 2010
Residents and fellows who are working in the hospital in a capacity outside their training programs...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, November 18, 2010
If a group of physicians approached your hospital about doing an underarrangement (a hospital...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 46, November 18, 2010
Dear readers,
HCPro wants to provide the most useful information to you. We need your help. Please...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 11, 2010
Disruptive and impaired physicians can put patients at risk, create an uncomfortable working...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 11, 2010
This week’s Free Form Friday giveaway is a focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 11, 2010
Most candidates will expect some paid time off for vacation. Yet, as the seven-on/seven-off work...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 11, 2010
Medical staffs that try to enforce attendance requirements usually find it a frustrating endeavor...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, November 4, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, November 4, 2010
Contractual and employment relationships only make sense if the strategic goals of the physician...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, November 4, 2010
If a proctor is not a member of your medical staff, he or she must be granted temporary privileges...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, November 4, 2010
Looking to implement electronic medical records (EMR) but not sure which vendor to choose? Here is...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 11, November 1, 2010
Medical staff leaders have important roles and responsibilities. When a leader steps into a new...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, October 28, 2010
The US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, October 28, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, October 28, 2010
One of the key challenges that low- and no-volume providers present is how to assess their...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, October 28, 2010
An effective medical staff must govern itself, make recommendations regarding the credentialing and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 21, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 21, 2010
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 21, 2010
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 21, 2010
All licenses should be verified at initial credentialing and reappointment, as well as at...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 21, 2010
Accentuate the positive: Even if the goal of your meeting is to provide constructive criticism to a...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 14, 2010
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 14, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 14, 2010
When The Joint Commission moved the disaster privileging criteria standards out of the medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 41, October 14, 2010
Historically, members of the medical staff have been expected to donate time to the peer review...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 41, October 12, 2010
The summit syndrome, or the “paradox of experience and expertise,” refers to a...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, October 7, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, October 7, 2010
Harassment and discrimination violate the Civil Rights Act, which protects against employment...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, October 7, 2010
Prospective review is the process whereby the evaluated physician describes to the physician...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, October 7, 2010
Ringing a bell with Boston attendees, Gawande referenced former Red Sox general manager (now...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, September 30, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, September 30, 2010
The proposed Common Program Requirements spell out several new standards. The following are some of...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, September 30, 2010
The Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP) launched...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, September 30, 2010
Hospitals are improving the quality of care in heart attack, pneumonia, surgery, and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, September 30, 2010
This week on MedicalStaffLeader.com, you’ll find information regarding the Joint...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 38, September 23, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 38, September 23, 2010
If your medical staff is struggling with the decision whether to use its own legal counsel or the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 38, September 23, 2010
The first step in choosing an appropriate overall physician-to-population ratio for a community is...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 16, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 16, 2010
To establish fair market value for physician ED call services, determine what those services...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 16, 2010
How should an organization proceed in developing or revisiting a policy covering clinical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 16, 2010
Two articles in the August 12 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine highlight the difficulty...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 9, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 9, 2010
On July 16, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a series of revisions to the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 9, 2010
In the physician recruitment cycle, we are at a critical stage when residents and fellows who...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 35, September 2, 2010
The target needs to be expressed in the same measurement format as the indicator. It is not...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 35, September 2, 2010
The MEC and governing board must cooperate to help the medical staff and hospital function...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 35, September 2, 2010
One of the most valuable duties of the medical staff advisor is the working alliance with the...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2010
This column concludes a series devoted to the many medical staff models that have cropped up in...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 35, August 31, 2010
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 26, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 34, August 26, 2010
If the organization is pushing to adopt the procedure, technology, or treatment in question, the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 34, August 26, 2010
Some hospital medicine practices implement retention bonuses. For each year of service, the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 34, August 26, 2010
They call Missouri the “Show Me State,” but perhaps that name is better suited for...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 34, August 26, 2010
Does your medical staff have a policy that specifically addresses credentialing and privileging for...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 33, August 19, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 33, August 19, 2010
Consider reinstituting mandatory medical staff meeting attendance. Under such an arrangement...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 33, August 19, 2010
Requests for leaves of absence have become more common in recent years, and it is important for...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 33, August 19, 2010
The orientation of new medical staff members usually falls to the medical staff professionals, but...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 33, August 19, 2010
For every 100 physicians, there are 95 medical lawsuits, according to a new report from the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 32, August 12, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 32, August 12, 2010
Each organization should have some level of orientation for its physicians, as there are many...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 32, August 12, 2010
Hospital administration and governance must closely monitor the work completed by the medical staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 32, August 12, 2010
is a group of physicians that could potentially pave the way for physician-hospital alignment: the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 31, August 5, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 31, August 5, 2010
Medical staffs know that the peer review process is not free of bias, but what they might not know...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 31, August 5, 2010
Believe it or not, imperfect data is usable data. Imperfect data should never prevent the peer...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 31, August 5, 2010
Last week, I went to the optometrist for my annual checkup. I expected to get a new prescription...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 31, August 5, 2010
Do you enjoy the classroom setting but don’t have the budget to fly all around the country...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 8, August 1, 2010
There are five components of a truly effective medical staff. Last month’s column explored...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 8, August 1, 2010
Often, medical staff bylaws describe the processes for nominating, electing, and removing medical...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 8, August 1, 2010
When it comes to medical staff peer review, few areas are stickier than conducting ongoing...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 30, July 29, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 30, July 29, 2010
Regardless of their reasons for not being active at the hospital, many low-volume practitioners...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 30, July 29, 2010
Remember, the term credentialing refers to the overall process of gathering and verifying...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 30, July 29, 2010
With the Joint Commission performing unannounced accreditation surveys, organizations must be in a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 30, July 27, 2010
Organizations must recognize that physicians aren’t taught leadership skills in medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 22, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 22, 2010
Generally, the department chair practices within the same specialty as the physician requesting...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 22, 2010
Looking to brush up on your business writing skills? According to Lynn Gaertner-Johnston, founder...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 22, 2010
Looking to create name recognition, give your career a boost, or simply share your bright...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 29, July 22, 2010
As the medical affairs office at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas reviewed incident...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 15, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 15, 2010
As the official representative of the hospital, the CEO is actively involved in the credentialing...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 15, 2010
It should be evident from the myriad legal issues surrounding economic credentialing policies that...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 15, 2010
CMS recently added outpatient measures to its Hospital Compare Web site. Among the measures...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 15, 2010
In the August issue of Medical Staff Briefing, I discuss the importance of spelling out the medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 27, July 8, 2010
As the medical staff services department reaches out and collaborates positively with so many other...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 27, July 8, 2010
OPPE doesn’t require medical staffs to reinvent the wheel—many OPPE data already exist...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 27, July 8, 2010
An individual responsible for managing physician employees should keep an ongoing log to track each...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Often, medical staffs throw new credentials committee members in with the sharks and hope that...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Physicians who are elbow deep in their hospitals’ electronic clinical data systems may...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, July 1, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, July 1, 2010
Should follow up occur if a single indicator is below the acceptable level, or should it occur...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, July 1, 2010
The goal of the just culture is to assign the consequences for an unsafe act in a fair way based on...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, July 1, 2010
The 2010 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium just wrapped up on May 7, and we’re already...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 26, July 1, 2010
Last week, we told you about the top free e-mail list serves for medical staffs. This week...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 25, June 24, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 25, June 24, 2010
During your next medical staff meeting, try this exercise: Have everyone in the room read the case...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 25, June 24, 2010
In the past, institutions often relied solely on references supplied by the applicant. But now it...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 25, June 24, 2010
Does your hospitalist program performance dashboard include hospitalist-specific data or does it...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 25, June 24, 2010
Myth: A physician who has not provided inpatient care services recently is incompetent
Truth: A...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 24, June 17, 2010
The Joint Commission has added antidiscrimination language to MS.06.01.07 and MS.07.01.01 that...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 24, June 17, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 24, June 17, 2010
Although nearly all hospitals use professional reference questionnaires during the credentialing...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 24, June 17, 2010
Check your mailboxes—electronic or otherwise—for the June issue of Medical Staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 23, June 10, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 23, June 10, 2010
To measure the burden of ED call on your medical staff, it is important to collect data on...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 23, June 10, 2010
Assuming that the medical staff services department does not identify any red flags during the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 23, June 10, 2010
According to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Healthcare Equality Index 2010, the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2010
Medical staff bylaws require varying levels of involvement from members of the active category.
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2010
Wondering how many facilities charge their medical staff members dues and what those funds are used...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2010
No focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) is perfect, and prospective FPPE has its...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2010
According to a report from the National Health Law Program entitled “Health Care Refusals...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
The traditional self-governing medical staff is alive, and in many cases, necessary. Both...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
When a physician applies to a medical staff, one of the first things that credentialing specialists...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Although MSPs often work behind the scenes, what they add to the focused professional practice...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
About 60% of practicing physicians will experience burnout at some point in their careers, says...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 21, May 27, 2010
Hospitals often are approached with opportunities to align with physicians, and the hospital often...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 21, May 27, 2010
Congratulations to our May contest winner, Iracema Navarro, medical staff coordinator at Promise...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 21, May 27, 2010
Before processing a low- or no-volume practitioner’s request for renewed privileges, hospital...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 21, May 27, 2010
Hospital employers and physician employees must first decide whether the base salary and benefits...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 21, May 27, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 20, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 20, 2010
Check your mailbox (electronic or otherwise) to find the latest issue of Medical Staff Briefing...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 20, 2010
If organizations merely address legalities in their contracts with physicians and fail to define...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 20, 2010
Maggie Palmer, MSA, CPMSM, CPCS, director of Scripps Centralized Credentialing, sent in a medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 20, 2010
To read a list of need-to-know changes and more educational resources regarding MS.01.01.01, visit...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 13, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 13, 2010
Most medical staff bylaws contain a section labeled “definitions” that precisely...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 13, 2010
When physicians launch provider-owned hospitals, they own a portion of the facility’s equity...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 13, 2010
am currently writing an article for Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider about how...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 6, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 6, 2010
Whenever a peer review committee sends a letter to a physician indicating that he or she provided...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 6, 2010
The most common use of an administrative time out is to address repeated episodes of unprofessional...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 6, 2010
Deciding when to initiate external peer review can be a daunting task for medical staffs. Even more...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 6, 2010
Congratulations to the April Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium contest winner, Melinda...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
As we mentioned in last month's column, an increasing number of hospitals are choosing to employ...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
For MSPs, starting a new job means learning a new set of medical staff bylaws and processes...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
A medical staff's peer review process doesn't have to be down in the dumps before it considers a...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
There is no magic formula to help hospitals determine which leaders to compensate and how much. One...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Medical Staff Briefing is a monthly newsletter for medical staff leaders and medical staff services...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 29, 2010
As the popularity of social networking sites skyrockets and more patients use the Internet to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 29, 2010
Not necessarily. Medical staff bylaws require varying levels of involvement from members of the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 29, 2010
Hospitals that offer their hospitalist programs comfortable office spaces have a better chance at...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 29, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 16, April 22, 2010
Dear readers,
I’m pleased to announce that we have launched...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 16, April 22, 2010
The credentials committee and medical executive committee recommend membership qualifications and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 16, April 22, 2010
After determining how much to pay a medical staff leader, the next question to ask is who should...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 16, April 22, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 15, April 15, 2010
The Joint Commission requires verification from the primary source(s). This requirement encompasses...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 15, April 15, 2010
Every hospital sets unique policies specifying the level of malpractice insurance coverage...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 15, April 15, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 8, 2010
The Commonwealth Fund recently released a study examining what successful health systems do that...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 8, 2010
We know travel budgets are tight and sometimes requesting training opportunities can be a...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 8, 2010
The inclusion of physician’s rights in the medical staff bylaws has become more important in...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, April 8, 2010
Some medical staff bylaws state that the entire medical executive committee (MEC) can serve as the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 8, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
As a medical staff leader or MSP, at some point during your career, you will inevitably find...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Many medical staff and hospital leaders believe that employment is a panacea for misaligned...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
When you combine the heart-wrenching possibility of taking away a colleague's livelihood with the...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Since the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a division of the U.S. Department of...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Medical Staff Briefing is a monthly newsletter for medical staff leaders and medical staff services...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, April 1, 2010
Congratulations to this month’s contest winner, Mindy Hays, CPMSM, medical staff coordinator...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, April 1, 2010
Many medical staffs work hard to develop good processes, put them in to place, and not look at them...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, April 1, 2010
The most critical issue on physician’s minds when it comes to competency data is how the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, April 1, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 12, March 25, 2010
We know budgets are tight. In an effort to make the upcoming Greeley Medical Staff Institute (GMSI...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 12, March 25, 2010
Most physicians who agree to participate in the bylaws committee do so with little knowledge of the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 12, March 25, 2010
The requirements for reporting by peer review organizations under Section 1921 are not expected to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 12, March 25, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 11, March 18, 2010
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 11, March 18, 2010
Hospitalist program revenue depends on accurate coding. To ensure correct coding, hospitalist...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 11, March 18, 2010
It is possible that a practitioner simply has not completed enough of a certain procedure in the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 11, March 18, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 10, March 11, 2010
We’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about medical staff leader compensation...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 10, March 11, 2010
Keep track of bylaws changes in a quick-reference chart. Check out this bylaws changes form...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 10, March 11, 2010
The medical staff services department's personnel budget reflects the expected cost of staffing the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 10, March 11, 2010
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 9, March 4, 2010
In a recent article from Today’s Hospitalist, a concept emerges about a number of physicians...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 9, March 4, 2010
The Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium provides best practices and tools from leading...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 9, March 4, 2010
In a recent article from Today’s Hospitalist, a concept emerges about a number of physicians...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 9, March 4, 2010
‘Tis the season for symposiums and conferences. When designing presentations, whether for a...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 9, March 4, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Since the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in October 2009 that it will...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Last month, I wrote about a problem many organizations face when implementing clinical service...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Fine wine might ripen with age, but peer review processes left alone for decades go sour. This is...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Medical Staff Briefing is a monthly newsletter for medical staff leaders and medical staff services...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 8, February 25, 2010
Although physicians are required to attend myriad meetings, leaders should make attendance worth...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 8, February 25, 2010
The hospital governing board is ultimately responsible for the hospital’s performance. It...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 8, February 25, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 7, February 18, 2010
As an incentive to physicians to provide call coverage, medical staffs should consider providing...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 7, February 18, 2010
At minimum, a referring provider expects the hospitalist to provide notification on admission of...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 7, February 18, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 11, 2010
Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither are talented credentialing teams. Join Greeley experts...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 11, 2010
There is no reason that an employed physician cannot serve on a panel unless he or she has a...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 11, 2010
Allied health professionals (AHP) can and should be divided into two groups: advanced practice...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 11, 2010
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 6, February 11, 2010
This weekly column from The Greeley Company addresses current issues in peer review, bylaws and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 4, 2010
In the past, institutions often relied solely on references supplied by the applicant. But now it...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 4, 2010
Inter-rater reliability is the extent to which two or more individuals (or raters) agree. In the...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Hospitals and health systems are increasingly interested in designing and implementing clinical...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Ask any MSP, and he or she will tell you that having the funds available to attend conferences and...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
As a medical staff leader or MSP, if you had to sum up your duties in three sentences, could you do...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Do your hospital governing board members understand why peer review is such a contentious issue...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Medical Staff Briefing is a monthly newsletter for medical staff leaders and medical staff services...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 28, 2010
Improving America’s Hospitals: The Joint Commission’s Annual Report on Quality and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 28, 2010
Have you ever joined a committee and, felt so lost during your first meeting that you wondered...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 28, 2010
When medical staff leaders develop a strategy to engage physicians, they should keep the following...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 28, 2010
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 3, January 20, 2010
One of the benefits enjoyed by medical staffs working with a locum tenens agency is that the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 20, 2010
Medical staffs can undermine a fair hearing process by denying the physician in question the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 20, 2010
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 3, January 20, 2010
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 2, January 13, 2010
Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither are talented credentialing teams. Join Greeley experts...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 13, 2010
In the December 31 issue of Medical Staff Leader Connection, we asked whether your medical staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 13, 2010
The primary goal of an ED call task force is to engage the medical staff at the front end of this...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 13, 2010
Simply stated, leadership is the act of getting things done through other people. However, doing so...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 13, 2010
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 1, January 6, 2010
The peer review committee should notify any physician whose case is being reviewed of the findings...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 1, January 6, 2010
In general, there is no third-party reimbursement to cover focused review. Because the proctor does...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 1, January 6, 2010
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 1, January 5, 2010
One of the most important leadership qualities is what psychologist Daniel Goleman calls emotional...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Hospitals often find that the people who have the experience and expertise to assist with...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Use this quick guide to find your favorite MSB articles from 2009
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
One Florida malpractice attorney wants to make sure that the three–strikes-your-out rule...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Minute taking is an art. Too little information in meeting minutes may result in inadequate...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Community hospitals don’t have to invite physicians to be owners to reap the benefits of...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Medical Staff Briefing is a monthly newsletter for medical staff leaders and medical staff services...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 52, December 31, 2009
As an MSP, I’m often asked to evaluate and diagnose problems that prevent the medical staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 52, December 23, 2009
Is your medical staff services department going paperless? Let us know by taking this quick poll...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 52, December 23, 2009
The appellate review committee or panel, which is usually made up of members of the governing...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 52, December 23, 2009
Focus on the actions taken during the meeting, rather than the discussion that led to the decision...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 52, December 23, 2009
Dear Medical Staff Leader Connection readers,
Whenever a new year approaches, I think about my...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 51, December 23, 2009
Economic credentialing assesses, as a qualifying factor, the financial impact of accepting a...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 51, December 23, 2009
Have you ever found yourself in a brainstorming session during which so many ideas were flying...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 51, December 23, 2009
The Joint Commission released a draft of standard MS.01.01.01 (formerly MS.1.20) and its 36 EPs on...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 51, December 23, 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 51, December 21, 2009
Although not specifically trained to read financial statements and budgets, physicians should be...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 50, December 16, 2009
The healthcare reform bill passed by the U.S. House and a bill under consideration in the Senate...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 50, December 16, 2009
Below is some sample bylaws language that explains the composition of the credentials...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 50, December 16, 2009
Performing credentialing process audits is similar to conducting patient record audits in that it...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 50, December 16, 2009
So why should the medical staff care about helping management achieve its financial goals? After...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 50, December 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 49, December 9, 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 49, December 9, 2009
What would you do with $92 million? According to a Healthcare Financial Management Association...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 49, December 9, 2009
The first intervention is collegial and only one person should carry it out. However, if the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 49, December 9, 2009
You’ve probably heard that part of being a good communicator is being a good listener, but...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 49, December 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 48, December 2, 2009
Maryland hospitals are applying their American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds toward secret...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 48, December 2, 2009
Many medical executive committee (MEC) members take their posts in January, which is right around...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 48, December 2, 2009
Standardize the case review method and scoring system to remove bias and make evaluation reports...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 48, December 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 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
The 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...