HCPro.com: Medical Staff Affairs Monthly

William Cors, MD, MMM, CMSL, Vice President, Medical Staff Services, uses this monthly e-zine to share his observations of emerging challenges and evolving best practices; information about political, regulatory, and legal issues affecting hospitals and their medical staffs; and to identify resources that may prove helpful to medical staff leaders.

November 12, 2008 (Volume 7, Issue 11)

A Pilgrim Legacy
Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching, and the story of the Mayflower voyage naturally comes to mind. This story is recounted in Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower: A Story of Community, Courage, and War. About half of the Mayflower voyagers were Leideners (Pilgrims), a group united by powerful and long-standing bonds based on deeply held common values and beliefs in the profession of their faith. What they lacked was access to capital, management skills, and operational experience. The “Strangers” were the other half of the passengers. What this group lacked in profession was more than made up by their managerial and financial skills. The two groups had many differences but were united in the basic goal of trying to create a new and better community and way of life in a new world that would benefit all of the citizens.

Other recently-published articles from Medical Staff Affairs Monthly:

The Common . . . WHAT?

A Pilgrim Legacy

How do you spell A-L-I-G-N-M-E-N-T? Let me count the ways

The culture of safety: From a priority to a core value

Behavior and Patient Safety-Perfect Together?

New medical staff models...let me count the ways

The Kadlec reversal

Welcome to Never Land

How to sink a ship

Certified Medical Staff Leader (CMSL)

I fought the law...and the law won?

Where has all the money gone? Who knows where the time goes?

Going, going, gone...

Fiduciary failure: Aberration or standard operating procedure?

MS-DRGs: Breakthrough or another misaligned incentive?

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