Today's tip comes from the December issue of Medical Staff Briefing:
Although most organizations have different methods for completing OPPE and FPPE, one common factor is that it requires both the medical staff services and quality departments. The data usually lives in the...
Developing core privilege forms from scratch can be a lengthy, complex process that requires weeks of researching specialty medical societies for competency benchmarks. Further, core privileges must be reviewed periodically to ensure relevance to the care provided at your facility. Fortunately,...
National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week is a time to celebrate what MSPs do. It can also be a time to assess your relationship with your medical staff leadership. Are you on the same page when it comes to credentialing and privileging practitioners? OPPE and FPPE? If you think your...
In 1992, President George Bush signed a Congressional House Joint Resolution proclaiming the first week in November as National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week. In the 23 years since then, medical staff services have become ever more integral to healthcare organizations of all sizes....
Most hospitals and their medical staffs do little or nothing to prepare a staff member to proctor. This is a serious deficiency that can have numerous adverse consequences. For example, an aggressive proctor might make judgmental statements that unnecessarily push the...
Today’s free resource is a checklist you can use to audit credentials files when preparing them for initial appointment or reappointment. This checklist was developed by the medical staff services department at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Lisa Kuklinski, BBA, CPMSM, CPCS,...
