Hospitalists have long been touted as the drivers of quality improvement initiatives, and one of their key tools for tracking the effectiveness of their initiatives is a dashboard. Dashboards are short reports containing data, often depicted in graphs, charts, and tables, that summarize the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 5
I’m sitting in my office, head in one hand, mocha in the other, trying to fulfill the request for privileging criteria, P&P, and an introduction letter to our medical staff for a procedure that is new to our facility and quite the stranger to me. The feeling of being stranded on a remote...
As the number of intensivists dwindles and demand for their services rises, hospitalists are stepping in to care for critical patients.
"We are way beyond the discussion of whether hospitalists should be in the ICU-they are already there. In many cases, they are managing the patients as...
Many hospitalist programs managers—if they haven't already—will see an increase in patients' need for palliative care. According to Jean Kutner, MD, MSPH, professor of medicine and division head of general internal medicine at the University of Colorado Denver, the...
The hospitalist shortage has hospitalist program managers and medical directors everywhere wondering just how many hoops they have to jump through to bring a new physician on board. If you've unsuccessfully tried offering traditional financial recruitment incentives, such as hefty base salaries...
The hospitalist movement has changed the dynamics of leadership. Traditionally, physicians who had upward of 20 years of clinical experience and were nearing retirement were chosen as leaders, sometimes regardless of their capacity to do the job well. Today, thanks to the under-40 crowd that is...
Hospitals often find that the people who have the experience and expertise to assist with high-stakes projects are not at the table because they aren’t in medical staff leadership positions, either by choice or because of the democratic nature of MEC elections. This problem can be alleviated by...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 12
On December 16, the EEOC added a section on how the COVID-19 vaccination interacts with the legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) to its publication titled “What You...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 29, Issue 4
As the novel coronavirus remains a threat across the globe, healthcare organizations should brush up on procedures for handling and sharing protected health information (PHI) during the outbreak of an infectious disease.
Although the peer review coordinator is involved throughout the case review process, the coordinator has the primary responsibility at the beginning of case review and through the following four steps: case identification, case screening, review preparation, and physician reviewer assignment. It...
