CMS allows a hospital system to have a unified medical staff made up of all the individual hospitals in the system. The Joint Commission takes the hospital system issue a step further and requires that the medical staff bylaws of a multi-hospital system contain the process that would allow the...
Your medical staff governance documents may fail to provide clear guidance, be noncompliant with accreditation standards, or create liability for your hospital if they are inadequate for today’s care environment. During the webcast, ...
If they’re a member of your medical staff, and you allow people without a license to be on your medical staff, then you need query the NPDB. It’s not a function of whether they’re licensed or not, it’s a function of whether they have been made a member of your medical staff or your healthcare...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires medical staff bylaws to address who can perform the history and physical examination and in what time frame the history and physical exam must be completed. The Joint Commission also adopted this requirement in 2009. The following is...
Today’s free resource is a crosswalk of accreditation standards surrounding reference of the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) during credentialing activities.
The desire to provide the highest-quality healthcare possible coupled with the need to reduce medical risks to patients and...
HCPro’s MSP Salary Survey asks respondents to name the entities that accredit their organization. Since 2012, the percentage of respondents who have selected DNV has doubled, from 4% of respondents to 8% in 2015. DNV entered the accreditation fray in 2008, when it was granted deeming status by...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 46
After months that saw small increases and even decreases, the Consumer Price Index for hospital services rose 2% in October, which was the highest month-over-month increase of the year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Inpatient hospital prices grew 2.3%, compared to outpatient...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 46
A study of nearly 200 hip and knee arthroplasty surgeries found that on average the doors to the operating room were opened every 2.5 minutes and remained opened for a total of 9.6 minutes. In 77 cases, the doors were open long enough to compromise the operating rooms’ positive pressure systems...
