From food to publicity to photo booths to more food, MSPs across the country have made this year’s National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week a memorable one. Check out how the following organizations celebrated their hard-working medical staff services teams:

• Magee Rehabilitation Hospital
• St. Mary Medical Center
• Eastern Connecticut Health Network
• Greenville Health System

This week, CRC Daily covers MSP awareness and advocacy. Since Monday, we’ve been granting all CRC e-newsletter readers access to “Q&A: The makings of an MSP,” a popular 2016 Credentialing Resource Center Journal article on leveraging professional advocacy tools. Today's your last chance to read the story before it goes back under lock and key.

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The work conducted by MSPs on an individual basis is essential to the Hospital in achieving its goal of delivering quality patient care. However, it is the collective work performed by all of us named above that make us the gatekeepers of patient safety and quality services!

After two years of relative constancy, MSPs are seeing upward movement on the salary front, with greater percentages of this year’s survey takers earning in each of the highest pay brackets:

A clearly defined and reflective scope of work is just as important for MSPs as for the practitioners they credential. This comprehensive job description, which comes courtesy of University Hospitals in Cleveland, features a summary of essential duties; experience, knowledge, and special skill requirements; an organizational chart; and role-specific competencies. 

Across the care continuum, organizations and their employees are being charged to do more with less— less personnel and less financial support. Given these challenges, MSPs must educate their CEO and/or medical staff leaders about their department’s important work and why it’s worth the investment. That said, CEOs and other leaders don’t have time to solve everyone’s problems.

Melissa Brenner, medical staff and provider enrollment manager for Adena Health System, discusses how the organization was able to use the tools of Six Sigma to strengthen and streamline its provider onboarding process.

The following is from Adena Health System in Chillicothe, Ohio, explaining the steps that happen in its revised and streamlined onboarding process. For more details about how Adena improved its provider onboarding, read this Q&A with Medical Staff and Provider Enrollment Manager Melissa Brenner.

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Join us in Las Vegas, February 5-6, for the 2018 Credentialing Resource Center Symposium.

Don't miss out on dynamic training, first-class faculty, and unmatched networking at the leading professional event for MSPs, medical staff leaders, and quality directors.

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