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October 2008 (Volume 5, Issue 10)	view entire issue

Effective leadership training prevents lawsuits, ensures regulatory compliance
The effectiveness of your medical staff leaders and, in particular, your medical executive committee (MEC) can have an enormous effect on the way your hospital operates. However, despite the MEC’s importance in helping facilities avoid legal trouble, many hospitals do not devote enough effort to training the MEC on compliance issues.

Improve physician behavior using patient satisfaction data
The Joint Commission’s July-issued Sentinel Event Alert regarding disruptive physician behavior called upon hospitals to take action against physicians who exhibit signs of impairment or offensive or egregious behaviors. However, most examples of problematic behavior don’t fall within such extreme categories.

Other recently-published articles from Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider:

Introduce technology with an inclusive evaluation process

Recent court rulings

Manage poor behavior with risk awareness, culture change, and follow-up

Address telemedicine, contracted physicians, and advanced practice professionals in medical staff bylaws

Facilities collaborate to overcome credentialing and peer review hurdles

Improve physician behavior using patient satisfaction data

Effective leadership training prevents lawsuits, ensures regulatory compliance

Ensure physicians know restrictions on standing orders

Sentinel Event Alert: Evaluate disruptive behavior policies

Ensure appropriate competency assessments for AHPs

Overcome barriers to the effective use of physician quality data

Avoid three pitfalls common to the core privileging method

Joint Commission suspends revised standard MS.1.20 implementation

Hospitals’ creative solutions ensure adequate ED coverage

Hospital management benefits from transparent, communicative culture

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