There was a time when medical staff standards seemed simpler and they were all located in one place: the Medical Staff chapter of The Joint Commission's Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (CAMH). But things are different today. Standards that apply to the...
Let's be honest-in the past, physicians at some organizations secured access to new devices and technologies by putting pressure on the hospital CEO. "The louder they yelled, the more likely they were to get what they wanted," says Virginia Gortych-Barnes, MD, physician...
When you attend conferences focused on medical staff services issues, you may come home eager to implement a new strategy or update a form, but because of the information overload, your efforts may come screeching to a halt. As you try to remember what a speaker said about peer...
My first consulting assignment involved a surgeon on a small medical staff with chronic depression. He would experience meltdowns in the middle of the night when nurses attempted to rouse him from a fitful sleep. On two occasions he slammed down the phone after being asked to...
The best of hospital leadership take an active interest and role in safety and quality at their facility, an attitude that can help quality improvement departments, accreditation coordinators, and others who live and breathe process improvement institute the changes necessary to...
Last month, we discussed how the medical staff leadership can build bridges between themselves and the medical staff members to create more collegial, open relationships. In the final installment of this three-part series about medical staff communication, we discuss how...
