Weekly Roundup: Medical Staff Leadership and Governance | Featured content: What kind of peer review data is helpful to present to the board? | Although the board is ultimately responsible for oversight of the organization, the level of data detail presented decreases as the level of authority increases. Unfortunately, physician performance data does not have the well-established metrics that are available for other data, such as financial data reporting. In this new era of quality data, we as an industry are still making our way through uncharted waters. |
Leadership insights: Law supports physician-owned hospitals | A Texas Congressman is trying to encourage the growth of physician-owned hospitals. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, recently introduced a bill into the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal portions of the Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, which ban self-referrals to patients to new physician-owned hospitals. |
Heard this week | "This policy threatens the citizens of Missouri. If this practice of denying emergency care can happen in our state, it can happen in any state and we must work both locally and nationally to fight for our patients' rights to have access to emergency care as protected by the 'prudent layperson' standard." |
Free resource: Sample policy language for aging practitioners | Today, to help medical staff leaders and committees manage the challenges that sometimes emerge as practitioners age, many organizations have developed policies and procedures that include methods for proactively answering questions of competency for late-practice physicians. These policies must take into account federal law, which prohibits discrimination against a person solely on the basis of age. Violation of this principle could lead to claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and unwanted legal proceedings. |
Tip: Sell core privileges to physician leaders | Converting to core privileging is a time-consuming and complex endeavor that is well worth the effort. But how do you convince everyone else? If your experience has been like many physician leaders, mentioning a change to the credentialing/privileging process garners a multitude of reactions. MSPs are usually extremely supportive and the medical staff ranges from overtly hostile to agnostic, while administration and board of trustee members have a “deer in the headlights” look—although the chief financial officer always wants to know what it is going to cost. |
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New Content: Members Only | New Platinum Plus webinar: Paperless credentialing case study | Published 5/25/17 "Going Paperless: University Hospitals' Case Study on Going to an Electronic-Only Medical Staff Office" is now available to Platinum Plus members of the Credentialing Resource Center. Click here to access this new release directly through the CRC website. Also be sure to check out the three webinars released earlier this month for Platinum Plus members. Read on for details. |
Temper the use of temporary privileges | Published 5/24/17 It’s a mild April morning. Dr. Smith, an accomplished surgeon, and Bill Loney, an affable—if absent-minded—general surgery practice manager, walk briskly down the halls of St. Elsewhere Medical Center, a far-off, yet somehow familiar, facility where Dr. Smith was recently hired. They pause at an office doorway, ducking inside to find Kay Oss, the hospital’s director of medical staff services, hunched over a paper-laden desk, phone propped between shoulder and ear as she scribbles frantic notes. |
Sample definitions of care needs warranting temporary privileges | Published 5/24/17 Most accreditors allow hospitals to grant temporary privileges to fulfill an important patient care, treatment, or service need, such as when a patient requires care involving specific clinical skills that are not currently available on the medical staff. Because the documentation of this need is evasive at times, guidelines may be codified in a policy and procedure. |
Bylaws language for granting temporary privileges in Joint Commission–accredited hospitals | Published 5/24/17 When it comes to temporary privileges, required credentialing steps and timelines vary based on the accreditor and, in some cases, the purpose for the grant. Regardless of accreditor, however, a hospital’s stance on temporary privileging parameters should be codified in the medical staff bylaws. This resource provides some sample language for a Joint Commission-accredited hospital. |
Physician chairperson performance measurement form | Published 5/22/17 The Physician Chairperson Performance Measurement form is a tool for measuring and documenting performance, discussing professional and organizational development, and setting goals and objectives. The tool is designed to facilitate communication and feedback, the most critical element in the performance planning and evaluation process. The process should strengthen the partnership between the hospital administration and the chairperson, ultimately benefiting the individual chair, the organization, patients, and all parties involved. |
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CRC Announcements | No CRC Daily on Monday | In observance of Memorial Day, we will not publish CRC Daily on Monday, March 29. We'll resume our normal publication schedule on Tuesday, March 30. |
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