It's National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week, a week to celebrate and honor the hard work carried out daily by MSPs. In honor of this, CRC is featuring photos, write ups, and messages from medical staff services departments around the country about how they are celebrating or recent accomplishments their department has made. It's not too late to share! Email CRC editor Delaney Rebernik your photos and messages and your organization could be featured on Credentialing Resource Center. 

Today's entry comes from Magee Rehabilitation Hosptal in Philadelphia. 

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:

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.

Your window into the professional experiences and opportunities of MSPs across the care continuum, career ladder, and compensation spectrum

The modern MSP’s influence spans more functions, facilities, and settings than ever before. Get unparalleled insight into the fast-moving field with the 2017 MSP Salary Survey Report. 

Featuring comparative data from more than 3,600 responses collected over four years, this resource is jam-packed with professional statistics, expert input, and prescriptive guidance for leveraging survey findings in the trenches.

Use this report to: 

• See how your experiences stack up against those of MSPs in similar professional circumstances
• Make the case for additional resources or compensation
• Educate stakeholders within and beyond the profession on the integral role MSPs play in patient safety, quality care, risk management, revenue cycle stability, and other essential healthcare functions
• Identify qualifications and next steps for advancing to a new position, relocating to a different credentialing environment, or gaining the competitive edge in an industry on the move

Click here to access this complimentary resource.

The Platinum Awards sets the standard for recognizing professionals and organizations who demonstrate success in the overarching healthcare continuum.