Delegates to the American Medical Association's (AMA) House of Delegates criticized the JCAHO for not heeding the input of physicians in adopting new standards, and sounded the alarm on standards they view as undermining physician autonomy, at the group's policymaking meeting in Las Vegas in...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 46
In many medical staff organizations, physician leaders are finding that old categories don't fit new realities of how physicians and other practitioners relate to the hospital and participate in medical staff organization activities.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 45
Last week, I was working with one of our Medical Staff Institute clients (Marshall Medical Center in Placerville, CA) and happened to see an article that Marshall's medical staff coordinator wrote for the California Association Medical Staff Services.
The article made me laugh out loud,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 44
As medical staff organizations all over the country prepare to make committee assignments that take effect on January 1, take time to thoroughly evaluate the effectiveness of your current committees.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 43
The Joint Commission, in their 2007 standards for the Medical Staff, have introduced a new concept - that of Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE). Although the requirements related to this concept do not go into effect for survey purposes until January 1, 2008, many medical staff...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 42
In last week's column, I wrote about the collaboration that is necessary between medical staff leaders and medical staff professionals to support the medical staff organization. I offered to provide a sample job description for a director of medical staff services. The sample job description...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 40
If you are a medical staff leader, you may think that follow-up as a result of an MEC meeting is not your job. You may not write follow-up letters (you might sign them-but not write them!) and it is undoubtedly not your responsibility to write the minutes, etc. However, as a medical staff leader...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 38
A consent agenda is a tool that can be used to save meeting time and to help assure that committee time is spent on items that require discussion. Consent agendas expedite approval of routine, non-controversial business brought before the committee. The use of a consent agenda places...
