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Issue 12, December 2, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Go for the gold

  It used to be that when William Schmidt, MD, PhD, medical director of Children's Hospital in...

• Third time's the charm?

  The ink had barely dried on JCAHO's September 29, 2004, clarification to its bylaws requirement...

• Requesting peer references at reappointment: Should you or shouldn't you?

  It's rare for a medical staff service professional, or for that matter, any healthcare...

• The emergency in emergency departments

  The on-call crisis is quickly becoming the weakest link in the chain of emergency care. According...

Issue 11, November 1, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Evidence-based guidelines: Change physician behavior outcomes

  Your performance improvement, patient safety, and medical staff leaders may have determined that...

• How imprecise data can lead medical staff members to improve performance

  In last month's issue, Robert Marder, MD, practice director for quality and patient safety for The...

• Back to the basics: Temporary privileges

  A practitioner fails to provide all the information necessary to process his or her reappointment...

• JCAHO releases second clarification of its medical staff bylaws standard

  As rumored during the National Association Medical Staff Services' annual conference in Miami in...

Issue 10, October 1, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Denial of clinical privileges results in $366 million jury award

  Determining the answer to complicated patient safety and credentialing questions can challenge even...

• Overcome cultural barriers to performance feedback reports

  Your hospital's medical staff, quality, and performance improvement leaders have likely accepted...

• MSPs take on resident education and credentialing

  Medical residents have a lot to learn. But it is not just clinical knowledge that the residents...

• CMS puts privileging under the microscope

  Disturbing news regarding the use of core privileges began circulating among medical services and...

Issue 9, September 1, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Physician leaders must provide EMTALA education

  In the April MSB, Deborah A. Datte, Esq., partner at the Philadelphia-based law firm of Post...

• Physician polls provide insight into credentialing and quality programs

  Your organization continuously creates and amends policies and procedures that directly affect...

• Compliance and competency: PAs and APRNs

  In the August MSB, we discussed where regulators stand in regard to assessing the competency of...

Issue 8, August 1, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Medical staff president speaks out: Refocus physician training

  Many physician leaders are familiar with W. Edwards Deming's management principles, which are...

• Survey cheat sheets prepare medical staff leaders for JCAHO

  The JCAHO's revamp of its survey process in 2004 means that medical staff leaders must prepare for...

• Compliance and competency: PA and APRN

  If you are veteran medical staff services or credentialing professional, you may remember when...

Issue 7, July 1, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• How to alleviate MEC members' liability risk concerns

  The hospital governing board delegates responsibility for quality assessment and credentialing and...

• Patient complaints identify improvement opportunities

  Patient satisfaction data provides essential insight into your hospitals' and medical staffs...

• Background checks: Hospitals watch allied health professionals and nurses

  Seasoned medical staff services professionals are well aware of the potential risks introduced by...

Issue 6, June 1, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Apply the competency equation to low- and no-volume providers

  Your credentials committee likely had a reappointment request before them in the past year...

• Lost in translation: Open lines of communication with general medstaff

  Medical staff leaders must ensure that when they make important decisions that, rather than...

• Survey results: The evolution of the medical staff office

  The role of medical staff and credentialing professionals has come a long way from simply...

• Welcome events: Build collaboration and retention

  Hospitals once hosted elaborate events to celebrate the appointments of new medical staff members...

Issue 5, May 1, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Leadership recruitment: Spark interest in medical staff affairs

  It’s no wonder hospitals struggle to recruit leaders. After all, it is not uncommon for...

• Go with the flow: JCAHO requires leaders to improve patient movement

  A majority of hospitals across the U.S. are struggling with capacity issues. Hospitals are in need...

• New clinic forces MSO to tackle delegated credentialing

  Peoria, IL-based OSF Saint Francis Medical Center's decision to create a federally qualified...

• MSSP leads reappointment profile project

  Part 2: Leadership support secures creation of an extensive reappointment profile Editor's note...

Issue 4, April 1, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Survey: More than 75% of hospitals compensate medical-staff leaders

  The stature associated with holding a medical-staff leadership position was once reward enough to...

• Disruptive physician policy adopted by five-campus system

  In 1995, HCA and Methodist Hospital began the merger of five medical staffs, medical executive...

• MSSP gathers institutional support for core privileges and profile development

  Introducing core privileges is a challenge in itself. However, imagine the work it would take to...

Issue 3, March 3, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Multiplying departments: Tips for combating this growing trend

  The cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons who comprise the cardiovascular-care committee at...

• Medicare reform bill orders moratorium on niche hospitals

  In the May 2003 MSB we discussed how Columbus-based OhioHealth responded when a group of 19...

• Practitioner privileges: Start spreading the news

  The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) introduced several survey...

Issue 2, February 3, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Case study: Helping physicians change disruptive behavior

  In the January MSB, Jonathan H. Burroughs, MD, FACEP, FAAFP, medical staff president at Memorial...

• Just in time for 2004: JCAHO publishes bylaws clarification

  The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' (JCAHO's) publication of its...

• An ongoing challenge for MSOs: Assessing allied health practitioner competency

  Are you struggling to implement systems that allow your medical staff office (MSO) to effectively...

Issue 1, January 6, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Make and keep your medical staff New Year's resolutions for 2004

  The New Year has just begun. Have you already forgotten the resolutions you made when ringing in...

• MSSPs: Know the legal hot topics for 2004

  There was a time when MSSPs' job duties entailed typing meeting agendas and minutes, and performing...

• Technology can help you get your job done

  Although we've all had our share of headaches caused by an uncooperative computer, a slow network...

• Continuing Education Quiz

  Complete the quiz by writing the letter corresponding to the correct choice for each question on...