Orienting hospitalists involves more than just providing new hires with a badge, showing them where the ED is, and sending them on their merry way. As employees of the hospital,...
A recent New Mexico case suggests that hospitals don't necessarily have to enforce credentialing requirements in employment and service contracts to the letter to ensure that they are not vulnerable in malpractice suits.
The story of Margaret McBride, a nun who was recently excommunicated for allowing an abortion to occur at Arizona-based St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, has made headlines during the past few months. The case prompted the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to write...
When a hospital experiences an adverse event or a near miss, it is the duty of everyone involved in the incident to find out exactly what happened and why. The first step in getting to the bottom of any incident is to conduct a root cause analysis (RCA). Generally, the quality...
Medical Staff Briefing (MSB) provides the strategies and updated information medical staff leaders and medical staff services professionals need to confidently meet their daily challenges. This monthly resource provides time-saving tools, expert advice, and...
For more than a century, the primary responsibilities of credentialing and peer review have been delegated to the medical staff. To fulfill this responsibility, medical staffs organized themselves under the principles of democratic self-governance. Early on, this meant direct democracy. The...
