Through the grapevine, the medical staff services department (MSSD) hears that Dr. Young is no longer with the organization. The department has received no official notification of this. There are rumors and innuendos that she had problems, and they know the president of the medical staff gave...
The Fifth District Appellate Court of Florida (the “Court”) recently upheld a trial court’s decision that a meeting of a hospital’s medical executive committee (MEC) was protected by the state’s peer review privilege. The Court also affirmed the trial court ruling that a related general medical...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 3
Practitioner impairment threatens all levels of operation. If left unchecked, age, health, or behavioral issues on the medical staff can diminish care quality, incite legal trouble, and jeopardize the safety of the entire hospital community.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 8
“[I]t’s important to completely unplug from the practice and experience regular ‘down time.’ This can be as small a change as a regular power nap, a walk outdoors, or a call to a friend at lunch, but can also mean bigger changes like not working at home and making yourself unavailable while on...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 5
“If we’re to truly reform healthcare, we can’t limit improvements to finances. We need to renovate how human beings in this system relate to one another.”
- Jeff Kane, MD, discusses improving communication between physicians and patients in a post on...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 17, Issue 4
"Do we have to demand to see the credentials and then call the college of every dentist, doctor, and mechanic we go to or is there a reasonable expectation that the business itself is … doing due diligence?”
- Patrick Burns, co-executive director of the Taxpayers Against...
The First District Appellate Court of Florida (the "Court") recently overturned an order compelling a hospital to turn over occurrence reports, holding that by operation of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 2
Although the fear of lawsuits runs deep in many facilities, MSPs are very rarely named in these lawsuits. "The bad news is, you're most certainly going to get sued as an organization," says Dan Mulholland, attorney with Horty, Springer, and Mattern, P.C., in Pittsburgh,...
Finding a lack of resources and tools that provide direction on clinical documentation for physicians, Joseph Cristiano, MD, assistant professor of general internal medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, set out to educate himself about the...
